Why is “cloud security” so over hyped?

On the first night of the RSA Conference I asked people on the show floor, “What’s the most over-hyped security issue?” Almost everyone said, “Cloud.” The next day I told Martin McKeay, host of the Network Security Podcast, about everyone’s “cloud overload” and he agreed with me in the sense that cloud security is talked about a lot. But at the same time, the reason they’re talking about it so much is because the moving pieces that are “the cloud” make compliance and proof of it that much more difficult.

McKeay asks, “What are the questions we need to be asking regarding compliance in the cloud?”

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