How secure is cloud computing?

Posted by Rhubarb on Server Fault See other posts from Server Fault or by Rhubarb
Published on 2010-05-29T23:36:42Z Indexed on 2010/05/29 23:42 UTC
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By secure, I don't mean the machines itself and access to it from the network. I mean, and I suppose this could be applied to any kind of hosting service, when you put all your intellectual property onto a hosted provider, what happens to the hard disks as they cycle through them? Say I've invested million into my software, and the information and data that I have is valuable, how can I be sure it isn't read off old disks as they're recycled? Is there some kind of standard to look for that ensures a provider is going to use the strictest form of intellectual property protection? Is SAS70 applicable here?

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