Comments on: Cloud Security: Are people’s concerns justified? http://www.gfi.com/blog/cloud-security-peoples-concerns-justified/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=cloud-security-peoples-concerns-justified Brought to you by GFI Software Fri, 13 Sep 2013 13:27:20 +0000 hourly 1 By: Michel Billard http://www.gfi.com/blog/cloud-security-peoples-concerns-justified/comment-page-1/#comment-20852 Michel Billard Sun, 13 Feb 2011 22:23:15 +0000 http://www.gfi.com/blog/?p=2010#comment-20852 Thanks for the article. This topic is a hot discussion point at my job. We constantly argue about using Cloud services or not. I believe that Cloud-based solutions can really help a small company, but sometimes I wonder if I’m being too naive. On the other side, I don’t think all the fears of having your data stolen are really founded and that most of the time, it’s just paranoia kicking in. Even though the content was leaked, would it really be such a big deal most of the time?

]]> By: Matthias http://www.gfi.com/blog/cloud-security-peoples-concerns-justified/comment-page-1/#comment-9536 Matthias Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:47:27 +0000 http://www.gfi.com/blog/?p=2010#comment-9536 Although I agree with the fact that trusting a major vendor of software in the cloud with company might be a better approach in some cases that trusting one or two IT staff in-house, an emerging concern for cloud delivery models using virtualisation platforms is also the risk of side channel attacks causing data leakage across co-resident virtual machine instances.

This risk is evolving, though currently is considered to be in its infancy, as the virtual machine technologies mature. However, it is possible that attackers who fail to compromise endpoints or penetrate cloud infrastructure from outside the cloud perimeter, may consider this technique. Acting as a rogue customer within a shared cloud infrastructure to access other customers’ data.

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