Exploring Major Security Flaws In Cloud Vendor Practices

When security experts sound the alarm about enterprises embracing cloud computing with little understanding of the risks, it's usually a case where the expert -- working for a vendor -- is making a pitch for their employer's products. That's all well and good, but here's the problem -- some of them have trouble keeping their own side of the cloud clean. That, according to Nils Puhlmann, co-founder of the Cloud Security Alliance and previously CISO for such entities as Electronic Arts and Robert Half International.

Puhlmann recently contacted CSOonline about one example where a sizable security vendor made multiple mistakes in the cloud. He spoke on the condition that the vendor's name is kept anonymous, as he is working with the company to help address its problems.

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