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This is a place to discuss Jisc Cloud Services and related topics, including cloud storage and research data management, amongst other things. Jisc's cloud blog post is available at: https://cloud.jiscinvolve.org/wp/ There you can read about whether cloud benefits outweigh the challenges and what it costs to migrate apps to the cloud. CESG has some useful documents on Cloud security guidance and best practice - just follow the link https://www.cesg.gov.uk/cloud-security-collection

Whether to Cloud?

4 July 2014 at 3:46pm

Andrew Cormack has been asked a few times recently how to decide which data or services it's appropriate to place in the cloud. The answer, rather boringly, is the same as for almost any other security question:

  • What are the risks and threats that need to be guarded against?
  • How do the possible solutions protect against those threats?
  • Compare the solutions and work out which provides the closest match to the requirements.

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