An RSA Roundup
The Cloud has been everywhere at RSA this week permeating presentations and vendor discussions and casual discourse almost as much as foreign-originating cyberattacks.
What the tone of conversation reminds this writer of is the earliest days of the Web, when it was becoming obvious the Web and the Internet were disruptive, game-changing technologies--but no one truly knew exactly how the game would change or what their new position in it would turn out to be.
Worried about being left behind, many companies scrambled to "get on the Web." Some had a vision; others did it just to say they were there, often spending a lot of money for those bragging rights. It wound up taking some years before it became clear about how to integrate the Web into business processes and make the Web work as a tool.
The breathless cloud discussions at the 2010 RSA Conference in San Francisco have some of this tone of "we've gotta be in the cloud!" As we've talked to smart, smart people in security and identity management from CA, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft, NetIQ, Novell, Splunk and VidSys, it's clear that some plain common sense needs to temper some of the cloud conversation--at least, if companies are to use the cloud with their security policies and procedures intact.
The Cloud has been everywhere at RSA this week permeating presentations and vendor discussions and casual discourse almost as much as foreign-originating cyberattacks.
What the tone of conversation reminds this writer of is the earliest days of the Web, when it was becoming obvious the Web and the Internet were disruptive, game-changing technologies--but no one truly knew exactly how the game would change or what their new position in it would turn out to be.Worried about being left behind, many companies scrambled to "get on the Web." Some had a vision; others did it just to say they were there, often spending a lot of money for those bragging rights. It wound up taking some years before it became clear about how to integrate the Web into business processes and make the Web work as a tool.
The breathless cloud discussions at the 2010 RSA Conference in San Francisco have some of this tone of "we've gotta be in the cloud!" As we've talked to smart, smart people in security and identity management from CA, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Microsoft, NetIQ, Novell, Splunk and VidSys, it's clear that some plain common sense needs to temper some of the cloud conversation--at least, if companies are to use the cloud with their security policies and procedures intact.
Continue reading The Cloud, Convergence, Consumerization and Common Sense.
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