We’ve come a long way from the early days of cloud computing.We now look at cloud computing seriously in terms of a ‘Business Benefits with Security, Governance and Assurance Perspective’— an aptly titled ISACA Emerging Technology White Paper. To help promote information security and good practices related to cloud computing, ISACA joined the CSA (Cloud Security Alliance) (www.cloudsecurityalliance.org).CSA has followed the definition given by NIST for cloud computing: ”Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g. networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction.”

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