Stephen Allen

"Cloud computing is one of the most heavily hyped, yet generally least understood trends in modern computing. Simply put, virtualization or cloud computing is the process of moving office information technology resources and data storage offsite and accessing them through a high-speed internet connection" (Varatharajan, Sathishkumar). Cloud computing and health care security is very important because naturally this will be the most logical next step for business to store information and use a public private cloud. I will review the standard of best practice for public cloud security written by the Cloud Security Alliance. I will discuss what the National Institute of Standards and Technology states in a document titled Guidelines on Security and Privacy in Public Cloud Computing. Cloud computing is the future of storing medical health records and with all the strict ... (more)