Michael Mucha is a 12 year veteran in enterprise security, and the CISO of Stanford Hospital, a globally-recognized, $1.6 billion revenue medical center on the campus of Stanford University. Prior to joining Stanford, he was a senior developer for the Managed Security Services division of Exodus Communications, where he wrote security-as-a-service and lights-out management software serving over 1000 managed security customers in 46 datacenters worldwide. Mucha has a BS in Computer Science and a Juris Doctorate. He lives in San Carlos, California.
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Reading Sam Johnston’s piece on the future of cloud computing, I came to a
resolution: I don’t care what the definition of “cloud computing” is.
First, we’re operating under an aspect of “you don’t predict the
future, you build it.” Better to wait 5 years and ask what the definitions
then, rather than spend the next 5 years fretting about it. Second,
definitions from the blogosphere and marketingland don’t solve enterprise
and startup and consumer use cases.
Taking a security example, saying “AWS is secure” or “AWS is not
secure” or “AWS is HIPAA-compliant” is meaningless until it’s tied to
a very specific problem/solution set. Secure against what, particularly?
The idea is that companies will have services which correspond neatly to the
definitions, at which point your choices are simple and you happily start
generating purchase orders, or reac... (more)
Michael Mucha is a 12 year veteran in enterprise security, and the CISO of Stanford Hospital, a globally-recognized, $1.6 billion revenue medical center on the campus of Stanford University. Prior to joining Stanford, he was a senior developer for the Managed Security Services division of Exodus Communications, where he wrote security-as-a-service and lights-out management software serving over 1000 managed security customers in 46 datacenters worldwide. Mucha has a BS in Computer Science and a Juris Doctorate. He lives in San Carlos, California.
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