Welcome to the Cloud Security Podcast: Episode 1.

In this episode:

What this podcast is about / who is it for

Who we are / what we do / blogs / twitter

• Christofer Hoff
• Cloud & Virtualization Director at a large global networking vendor
  
• Based in Boston, US
• Blog at: Rational Survivability
• Twitter: @beaker
• Email: [e-mail]
  
• Craig Balding
• Tech Security Lead at the Banking & Finance Division of a F500
  
• Based near Budapest in Hungary
• Blog at cloudsecurity.org
  
• Twitter: @craigbalding
• Email: [e-mail]
  

What we mean by Cloud Computing?

Upcoming Cloud Security Events/Talks
- Sensepost Black Hat USA preso "Clobbering the Cloud" (schedule).

Clouds News: Cloud FUD

• Mafiaboy's pronoucement of imminent internet meltdown due to centralization
• Twittergate: world + dog pronounes Cloud insecure (esp. Google Docs). 
  
• Nice demystification from Lori Mac Vittie in her guest post 'Cloud Security is not Cloud Security' (FD from Craig: I run fudsec, I accept AMEX, VISA, MC & thoughtful guest posts ;).

Need to get past the FUD, how can you shape Cloud security today?

1. Cloud Security Alliance
   
2. ENISA Cloud Security Risk Assessment
3. Jericho Forum

Non security specific Cloud linkage:

People asking you what is Cloud Computing?  Salesforce.com 'What is Cloud Computing?' youtube video

Interesting posts from James Urquhart:

• Good pulse check on Three Debates That Will Benefit Cloud Computing: Consumer/SM[B|E] vs Enterprise, Public vs. Private Cloud, Open Source vs. Proprietary
• Azure pricing announced: directly competing with Amazon, messages charged in 100K chunks to support service integration, no mention of compute power (what do you get for the money)
• Pirate Bay: online storage service
  

Rackspace (finally) gets an API!  Its a Cloud I Tell Ya!

Thanks for listening - tell us what you think! (contact info at top)