Cloud Providers' Hiring Methods Pose Risks

March 1, 2010 | Read this Article A dearth of quality IT experts to staff cloud computing companies could present security risks to the government and business customers of these infrastructure, platform and software as a service providers.

In a peer-reviewed paper released Monday at the RSA security conference in San Francisco, the not-for-profit Cloud Security Alliance issued its top threats to organizations employing cloud computing, including the risk from malicious employees of cloud computing providers.

Vetting conducted by some large cloud computing customers reveal that the hiring of cloud providers' technical staffers lack the robust and uniform practices followed by other technology companies, said Jim Reavis, Cloud Security Alliance co-founder and..