Cloud Computing Security Considerations

Citation
Australia Government, Defense Signals Directorate, Cloud Computing Security Considerations (full-text).

Overview
This discussion paper assists agencies to perform a risk assessment and make an informed decision as to whether cloud computing is currently suitable to meet their business goals with an acceptable level of risk.

The document addresses the following topics:


 * availability of data and business functionality
 * protecting data from unauthorised access
 * handling security incidents.