[ISN] Cloud services could bolster national cyber security

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/020211-cloud-services-cyber-security.html

By Tim Greene
Network World
February 02, 2011 

The shift to cloud computing offers an opportunity to better secure the 
national digital infrastructure by concentrating the burden of cyber 
security among a relatively small number of service providers rather 
than thousands of individual businesses, according to a report by a 
foreign policy think tank.

"Cloud computing has weaknesses, but it also offers the opportunity to 
aggregate and automate cyber defense," according to a new report by the 
Center for Strategic and International Studies. The report, 
"Cybersecurity Two Years Later," is a follow-up to "Securing Cyberspace 
for the 44th Presidency," which the group issued in 2008.

"Much of the burden of security will shift from consumers and businesses 
to service providers that may be better equipped to meet advanced 
challenges," the new report says. "The move to the cloud is not a silver 
bullet that will solve all cybersecurity problems, but it is part of a 
larger move to a more mature infrastructure that includes the automation 
of security practices and monitoring -- such as the Security Content 
Automation Protocol (SCAP) -- particularly if we find a better way for 
service providers to work more effectively with government agencies."

In the two years since the foreign-policy think tank issued its first 
report the Obama administration has fallen short of implementing 
measures that would protect the U.S. from cyber attacks, the new report 
says.

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