Cisco: Cloud computing a security nightmare

Speaking at a keynote address at the annual RSA security conference in San Francisco this week, Cisco CEO John Chambers noted that while cloud computing was inevitable, the migration of computing services to the Internet is set to become a problem from the perspective of maintaining security.

Ronald Rivest, who is a computer science professor at MIT and noted cryptographer, agrees. Speaking at a conference panel held on Tuesday, he noted that while he is optimistic about the future of cloud computing, it was going to take "a lot of hard work" to make it secure. In John Chamber's own words: "It is a security nightmare and it can't be handled in traditional ways."

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