ENISA's Executive Director, Dr. Udo Helmbrecht, gave a presentation at the ISACA Information Security and Risk Management Conference on the 5th November in Vienna.
This event is an all-encompassing security meeting that merges network security, information security management and risk management as well as featuring presentations from various high level speakers from Industry and the Public sector.
Dr. Helmbrecht presented "Cloud Computing for Middle Market Companies", in which he discussed the impact of the cloud computing business model on the security posture of small and medium enterprises in the European Union landscape, as well as the possible benefits and risks of the cloud approach.
For more information on ENISA's activities on Cloud Computing please read the following reports:
Cloud Computing: benefits, risks and recommendation for information security http://www.enisa.europa.eu/act/rm/files/deliverables/cloud-computing-risk-assessment
Cloud Computing information assurance framework http://www.enisa.europa.eu/act/rm/files/deliverables/cloud-computing-information-assurance-framework/
The new report "Governmental Cloud: making an informed decision" shall be available by the end of 2010.
Finally , ENISA is part of the CAMM, Common Assurance Maturity Model, project which has the mission to provide an objective, consistent and complete trust framework to transparently assure information risk management maturity, across the supply chain.
http://common-assurance.com/wp-content/uploads/Common-Assurance-Maturity-Model-vision.pdf
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