This is an update to my essay on Cloud Computing and Security and some of the recent changes
==> Recently joined a new working group for cloud audit, it is the Cloud Audit Working Group.
"The goal of Cloud Audit is to provide a common interface that allows Cloud providers to automate the Audit, Assertion, Assessment, and Assurance (A6) of their environments and allow authorized consumers of their services to do likewise via an open, extensible and secure API. CloudAudit is a volunteer cross-industry effort from the best minds and talent in Cloud, networking, security, audit, assurance, distributed application and system architecture backgrounds."
==> Learned from Jonathan Penn's blog about the Cloud Security challenge . This is for startups with innovative Cloud Security solutions. If you have innovative technology that addresses some of security or privacy issues surrounding cloud computing, I encourage you to apply, further details are below:
Entrants must have a technology that can be used to prevent, defend against, cope with or recover from terrorist incidents and other criminal acts in the 'cloud'. Examples of areas of interest are (but are not limited to): data protection, storage in the cloud, authentication, encrypted data transfer, data classification, understanding data locations, vulnerabilities from social networks and virtualization SW. Entrants cannot have more than GBP£3 million (~$4.5m) in annual revenues in 2009 (total annual sales revenue). Deadline for submission is March 15, and winners will be announced in April. Entry is free.
The winner of the Cloud Security Challenge will receive: . $10,000 cash award. . Exclusive mentorship from an executive at CapGemini . Up to three finalists will be invited to test their technology in an HP Labs cloud test-bed
==> For India and Bangalore based readers, who wants to know more about Cloud Computing, there is Cloud Computing summit organized by Datacraft and involves talks from EMC, Cisco, and VMware. This is on March 9th.
For others, there is a Web based conference on Cloud Security on March 11th, the link is below
http://www.brighttalk.com/summit/cloudsecurity3
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