What's Most Misunderstood About Cloud Computing?

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

b'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\\n

Cloud computing trends;
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What\'s most misunderstood about the cloud;
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How organizations should proceed with their own cloud deployments.
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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.'