Comments on: Cloud Hosting Still Cloudy for Many Businesses http://www.bigmarketingsmallbusiness.com/2009/10/26/cloud-hostin-still-cloudy-for-many-businesses/ Common and uncommon marketing ideas that help small businesses connect BIG with their customers. Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:12:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Eirik Iverson http://www.bigmarketingsmallbusiness.com/2009/10/26/cloud-hostin-still-cloudy-for-many-businesses/comment-page-1/#comment-1496 Eirik Iverson Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:41:19 +0000 http://www.bigmarketingsmallbusiness.com/?p=812#comment-1496 Cloud computing offers fantastic economic and other benefits to those that employ it. However, if you have something confidential and valuable enough for cyber criminals to want to steal, you had better consider the security or lack of it on a typical PC used by end-users to access cloud services. More here on the issues and risk mitigations: http://www.blueridgenetworks.com/securitynowblog/cloud-computing-endpoint-security-data-leakage-risk Remember that story about the girl suggesting that the air be let out of the tires of the truck stuck in the tunnel? And did you know a recent study found that signature-based anti-virus software products (what most folk use) miss 71% of malware less than a month old (thousands created every day). Imagine how the stymied gray-haired men at that tunnel felt. So please, consider the importance of endpoint security. Cloud computing offers fantastic economic and other benefits to those that employ it. However, if you have something confidential and valuable enough for cyber criminals to want to steal, you had better consider the security or lack of it on a typical PC used by end-users to access cloud services. More here on the issues and risk mitigations:

http://www.blueridgenetworks.com/securitynowblog/cloud-computing-endpoint-security-data-leakage-risk

Remember that story about the girl suggesting that the air be let out of the tires of the truck stuck in the tunnel? And did you know a recent study found that signature-based anti-virus software products (what most folk use) miss 71% of malware less than a month old (thousands created every day). Imagine how the stymied gray-haired men at that tunnel felt. So please, consider the importance of endpoint security.

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