The Cloud Security Alliance has revealed its list of top cloud security threats to all those people that are planning on switching into the cloud hosting world.  For people wanting to enter into the world of cloud computing and breaking the barrier into the unknown world.  The Cloud Security Alliance polled 29 information security experts from all areas in the cloud space  to get their opinions on current security threats within this cloud environment.

Here are the first three threats to Cloud Security:

1. Abuse and nefarious use

2. Insecure Application Programming Interfaces

3. Malicious insider risks

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Fusepoint, a long time vendor of dedicated hosting has now moved into the cloud hosting arena.  They stated that: “Private Clouds facilitate customization and integration with dedicated components that yield a higher-level of performance and availability for your critical infrastructure that is not always possible in Shared or Public Clouds.

The Fusepoint Managed Services line of Private Cloud Hosting solutions has extended service capabilities that include Microsoft’s (News – Alert) Hyper-V virtualization technology. In their own words, “Fusepoint’s Fully Managed, Private Cloud hosting solutions are ideal for organizations that want to create a private resource pool dedicated to run their mission-critical hosted infrastructure.”

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New Microsoft Exchange Server migration tool in the cloud for Google apps helps clients to migrate their Microsoft Exchange Server (email and calendar) to the cloud hosting service.  It expands the Outlook sync and Lotus Notes.

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