Cloud Priorities 2015

A good question . . .

But my answer might not be broad enough!
Another one of those Dan’s New Leaf Posts, meant to inspire thought about IT Governance . . . .

The Cloud Computing Association (CCA) is “reaching out” to persons asking their “Top Three Cloud Priorities.”  I found that interesting.  The e-mail, which looks like a broadcast message, ended up bullet pointing what my cloud priorities COULD be as follows:

• Accounts Payable/Receivable
• Business Development, Sales & Marketing
• Customer Relationship Management (CRM)
• HR Management
• Imaging and BIG DATA Management
• Logistics & Distribution Management
• Mobile Applications
• Network Security Management
• Production & Manufacturing
• Storage Solutions
• Supply-chain/Inventory Management
• Tax, Accounting and Financial Management
• The Internet of Things (IoT): Managing Multiple Solutions in the Cloud
• Others?  If your top 3 priorities are not on this list, please tell me what they are.

Here’s my top three cloud priorities:

1. Cut back on what’s using “the cloud” on my home network.  I don’t have a lot of bandwidth, and the “internet of things” is starting to slow me down as the thirteen devices I have update patches, auto-play movies on Facebook, etc.
2. Make sure everybody in the world knows that when you engage with a free service on-line (a cloud service), you are engaging with a third party and thus your Information Security Officer needs to look into it a bit.
3. Warn users everywhere that when they get a new computer nowadays, it’s configured to ship data to cloud storage places by default, and if that data is owned by your company . . . . . or confidential to you . . . . . you might want to look into what’s actually happening.

Original article by Dan Hadaway CRISC CISA CISM. Founder and Managing Partner, infotex

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