What's Most Misunderstood About Cloud Computing?

Published: March 31, 2010, 1:57 p.m.

Interview with H. Peet Rapp of ISACA's Cloud Work Group\n\n

Everyone is talking about cloud computing these days - but are they having the right conversations?\n\n

H. Peet Rapp is an information security auditor who sits on ISACA's Cloud Computing Work Group, and he's co-author of the white paper Cloud Computing: Business Benefits With Security, Governance and Assurance Perspectives.\n\n

In an exclusive interview, Rapp discusses:\n\nCloud computing trends;\nWhat's most misunderstood about the cloud;\nHow organizations should proceed with their own cloud deployments.\n\n

Rapp entered the IT audit/compliance profession in 2003, after publishing the widely read paper "An IT Executive's Overview of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002." With his firm, Rapp Consulting, he has audited, provided risk assessments and developed IT control frameworks for more than 70 organizations and developed a reduced IT control set for non-accelerated filers.