InfraGard Reports: John Checco

Cloud Computing: Issues and Strategies

By John C. Checco, CISSP CSSLP CCSK

On October 5 2010 the Wall Street Technology Association continued its technology education seminars in the Boston Financial District on the topic of “How to Securely Leverage Cloud Computing” with a keynote by Gartner Fellow David Cearley and supporting presentations by Cognizant, MetraTech, NetApp, Verizon Business and MGL. This article is a synopsis of this seminar. Many thanks to the following parties for permitting the selective redistribution of this material:
David Cearley (Gartner), Mike Seppi (MGL), Paul Roehrig (Cognizant), Michael Clark (Verizone Business), Shaun Mahoney (NetApp), Doug Zone (MetraTech), Mike Maffattone (Harvard Management Group), Madge Meyer (State Street Corporation) and the Wall Street Technology Association.
Rather than paraphrase each speaker’s presentation; it would be more useful to organize the review into four major sections that each speaker has touched upon:

· Cloud Concepts & Definitions

· Cloud ROI & Business Justification

· Cloud Migration Planning & Assessment

· Cloud-Specific Security Issues

InfraGard Reports was pleased to have John Checco on the program and we would like to hear from others with their concerns and comments on Cloud Computing.

NY InfraGard Team