{"id":10299,"date":"2010-01-27T18:13:15","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T18:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10299"},"modified":"2010-01-27T18:13:15","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T18:13:15","slug":"microsoft-cloud-computing-security-considerations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aidanfinn.com\/?p=10299","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft &#8211; Cloud Computing Security Considerations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One or two people out there are talking about something called Cloud Computing.&#160; I doubt it\u2019s important \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?displaylang=en&amp;FamilyID=3269a73d-9a74-4cbf-aa6c-11fbafdb8257&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+MicrosoftDownloadCenter+%28Microsoft+Download+Center%29#tm\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> a document on cloud computing security:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cA high-level discussion of the fundamental challenges and benefits of cloud computing security, plus some of the questions that cloud service providers and organisations using cloud services need to consider when evaluating a new move, or expansion of existing services, to the cloud. 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