The National Institute of Standards and Technology Wednesday issued two drafts on cloud computing, including the first set of guidelines for managing security and privacy in the cloud and another on cloud computing definitions. NIST issued new virtualization guidance, as well.
Special Publication 800-144 (Draft): Guidelines on Security and Privacy in Public Cloud provides an overview of the security and privacy challenges for public cloud computing and presents recommendations that organizations should consider when outsourcing data, applications and infrastructure to a public cloud environment.
