Chapter 3. Security Concerns, Risk Issues, and Legal Aspects
As systems, clouds are massively complex in terms of scale and orchestration of resources. This massive scale, along with a disciplined appearance and repeated patterns, are the qualities comprising a successful cloud implementation. However, a cloud's complexity doesn't necessarily equate to its level of security, because much of a cloud amounts to repeated patterns at massive scale, and the security benefits of this are significant. Fortunately, thanks to its inherent qualities, cloud computing has tremendous potential for organizations to improve ...

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