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Two user groups launched cloud-security best-practices campaigns at RSA Conference 2009 and formed an informal alliance to influence the development of security products in accordance with their recommendations.
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and the Jericho Forum released their agendas of threats to cloud services that need to be addressed, with CSA's detailed "Security Guidance for Critical Areas of Focus in Cloud Computing" filling up 83 pages that detail 15 areas of security concern.
At the same time, the Europe-based group Jericho Forum served up an outline of threats it perceives. A much smaller group, Jericho Forum acknowledged that CSA had thrown more people at the problem and come up with a more complete document.
But the groups are in agreement on what needs to be done. Chris Hoff, a security consultant who wrote the architecture section of the CSA...