Why is Cloud Security such a big Challenge ?

Cloud security is a big challenge because the big vendors have made us believe it is so. In reality it is not a big challenge. 

There are solutions out there that solve the problem. Remember that
cloud security is really about securing the access points – the doors (and
windows if applicable) to your house (of data). The walls are obviously secure and impenetrable but if your front (or back door for that matter) is secured with nothing more than a ‘standard’ lock then any thief can quickly pick the lock and get in. For "standard lock" read – "user name and password." 

And the reality is that most applications that are accessed via a standard user name and password ‘lock’ are hosted in the Cloud.    

So what is needed is something much stronger but which is easy to implement and easy to scale. It helps not to use a two-factor authentication (2FA)  solution that requires you to carry around a dongle – because it just cannot scale economically. And because traditional 2FA solutions are easily hackable through Man in the Middle/Web Browser attacks.  

So what is needed is a solution is one that is easy accessible and implementable, i.e. a SaaS solution; one that is easy to scale (does not require the end user to carry around some kind of device like a dongle or USB key) and one that is strong (is immune to traditional hacks).    

Check out this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L...

And you will see that Cloud security is not such a big challenge

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