The Vendor of My Cloud-Vendor is My Friend
What does a suburban roofing company have in common with a cloud supplier? The answer can be found in the passage of time. This conversation occurred with Sean Heide, research technical director at the Cloud Security Alliance, Chris Holland, VP of cloud services at Thales, and me, Steve Prentice, host of the Security Sessions Podcast. We discussed that one of the lessons that homeowners need to learn early on when they see those plastic signs advertising roofing work “guaranteed for twenty years” is that such a guarantee is meaningless if the roofing company has no intention of being in business that long. When it comes to roofing, as with many other sectors of our economy, there are many fly-by-night operations that sell something that they have no intention of supporting. But inexperienced consumers remain blind to such subterfuge, seduced instead by a false sense of security regarding the long-term safety of the roof over their heads.
