ENISA Cloud Computing Risk Assessment

The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) has published its analysis of the information security benefits and key security risks of cloud computing. The danger of lock-in, making it difficult for a customer to migrate data from one provider to another or to bring its data back to an in-house IT environment, is one of the risks identified along with loss of governance,  compliance risks and insecure data deletion. Identified benefits include dynamic resource allocation, and benefits of scale in security investments.

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