When user organizations outsource business functions to a service provider, the risks of the service organization become risks of the user entities. Organizations that use service providers want to ensure the integrity and security of the system and company to which they are entrusting their data. Accordingly, user organizations are increasingly demanding that their service providers undergo an audit that...
My middle school daughter has a new word: Confuzzled. She is confuzzled by her algebra homework, confuzzled as to why I won’t let her have ice cream before dinner, and confuzzled that there was once a time when you had to answer the phone without knowing who was on the other end. Urbandictionary.com says that confuzzled is a merge of...
Security in a cloud based computing environment is at the forefront of concerns for enterprises. Cyber security is a risk to any organization that relies heavily on data, and this is compounded by regulatory issues that organizations face. Legal compliance and privacy are two significant risks associated with cloud data breaches. Cloud Compliance Companies that maintain Personally Identifiable Information (PII) are under...