Cloud computing is all the rage, yet there are significant challenges to embracing the cloud with the goal of security and Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) compliance. Among these barriers are defining system audit boundaries, who is responsible for audits, and how federal agencies can achieve security in a shared cloud computing environment. This session will clear up FISMA security compliance misconceptions and obstacles to cloud computing and will offer participants strategies for synching their FISMA compliance framework to the cloud.

Speaker Bio:

Eric Greenberg is VP of Security & Risk Solutions at Integralis. He has more than 20 years of groundbreaking Internet, security, and IT experience as an executive and consultant and is the author of two widely read books, Mission Critical Security Planner and Network Application Frameworks. Highlights of Greenberg's career include his role at Netscape where he led their security group managing the deployment of a range of pioneering technologies including the one used for nearly all security on the Internet today, the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL/TLS) protocol. At a key time in the growth of the Internet, as director for Global SprintLink, he led the deployment of one of the largest international networks of its time. He also served as VP of IT Global Services at the Discovery Channel where he managed their worldwide IT infrastructure.