This is a copy of the presentation delivered to the Australian Not-for-Profit CIO Forum in Sydney in October

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Exposing the systemic risks in
Enterprise Cloud Computing
Australian Not-for-Profit CIO Forum
10th October 2012
ROB LIVINGSTONE
- PRINCIPAL, Rob Livingstone Advisory Pty Ltd, and
- Fellow, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
navigatingthrougthecloud.com

2. Agenda
What I will be covering
1. Exploring the real definition of Cloud
2. Scope of this presentation
3. Systemic vs. Technical risks
4. Hybrid Cloud is the reality
5. Adding in mobility
6. BYOD, or Bring your own Disaster?
7. Hybrid Cloud + Mobility + BYOD  Systemic Risk?
8. Standards? Which standards?
9. Orchestrating the transition

3. 1. Exploring the real definition of Cloud
The most sensible Definition of Cloud:
“Forget your technical definition of the Cloud, ask
your mom what the Cloud is….
…And what your mother will tell you about the Cloud
is that it means it’s not on my computer.”
Dave Asprey – Global VP, Cloud Security, Trend Micro
‘Navigating through the Cloud ‘ - Podcast Episode 23 rd May 2012

4. 2. Scope of this presentation

5. 2. Scope of this presentation
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6. 2. Scope of this presentation
Inherent Risk Relationship with Cloud
Service Delivery and Deployment Models
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8. 2. Scope of this presentation
• Mission critical, non-commodity, enterprise systems
• Multi-year investment in a cloud solution
• Shifting existing enterprise capability to Cloud, (or integrating)
• Mid to large enterprise
• High security, privacy and confidentiality needs
• High governance loads and compliance environments
• Low risk appetite / high failure penalty environments

9. 3. Systemic vs. Technical Risk
Systemic Risks
• Taking a systemic view of risk will give you a better perspective of
the actual risk, rather that what you think the risk might be
• Systemic risks are those with the greatest potential impact as they
affect the entire system (ie: Organisation, government, country,
world…)
• Case in Point: How is that the finance industry, which is one of
the more regulated, and invests heavily in risk identification,
mitigation and transference could be the cause of the current
global financial problems?
• Systemic risk for the enterprise is the silent killer and is often the
hardest to identify as only a few have a complete, transparent and
objective overview of the overall enterprise in sufficient detail.
• Mitigation through approaches such as Enterprise Risk Management
(ERM), origins in fraud, organisational governance, insurance, etc

10. 3. Systemic vs. Technical Risk
Technical (or functional) Risk
• Identifying, categorising and ranking technical and functional risks
is core to conventional IT risk assessment approaches:
o Risk of a specific event = (Impact x Probability of that event
occurring) + Risk Adjustment
• Underpins conventional risk certification frameworks e.g. ISO
2700X
• Certification does not necessarily equal security or effectiveness
of your risk management model
• Often focusing on the diverse range of technical risks, does not
account for the interaction between risks.
• Systemic risks are often more significant than the sum of the
individual, technical risks

11. 4. Hybrid Cloud is the reality
Hybrid will be the dominant form in the enterprise
“Within five years, it will be primarily deployed by enterprises
working in a hybrid mode”. - Gartner
Gartner "Predicts 2012: Cloud Computing Is Becoming a Reality”
(Published: 8 December 2011 ID:G00226103)

12. 4. Hybrid Cloud is the reality
…. And with the Hybrid Cloud comes complexity….

13. 4. Hybrid Cloud is the reality
…. And with the Hybrid Cloud comes complexity….
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14. 4. Hybrid Cloud is the reality……
…. As is the potential for complexity….!
• Orchestrating versioning,
change control and rollback
• Life expectancy alignments
• Business Continuity
• Identity Management
• Due diligence
• Forensics
• BYOD
• Mobility
• Legislative / Jurisdictional
• Contractual complexity
….. To name but a few

15. 4. Hybrid Cloud is the reality……
…. As is the potential for complexity….!
• Orchestrating versioning,
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• Life expectancy alignments
• Business Continuity
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16. 4. Hybrid Cloud is the reality……
"Cloud consumers should budget for additional integration costs
which can range from 10% to 30% — and sometimes as high as
50% — of the total cost of cloud IT projects.“
Gartner Predicts 2012: Cloud Services Brokerage Will Bring New Benefits and
Planning Challenges - Published: 22 November 2011 G00227370

17. 4. Hybrid Cloud is the reality……
Review, define and assign key roles in your Cloud
environment.
– Define your Cloud Computing Reference Architecture (CCRA) by
reviewing applicability against published models (Eg NIST, IBM, etc)
– Ensure you do not miss important roles (Eg: IBM CCRA does not
include Cloud Broker, Cloud Auditor yet included in NIST CCRA)

18. 4. Hybrid Cloud is the reality……
The emergence of the ‘Cloud Broker’

19. 4. Hybrid Cloud is the reality……
IT Department in the Cloud?

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21. 4. Hybrid Cloud is the reality
Hybrid cloud can contribute to….
•Increased vulnerability due to its fragmented architecture and larger
surface …
•however if it is properly architected, risks largely eliminated by
implementing measures such as…
o Deploying effective policy based key management processes
o Properly segmenting your public and private clouds
o Encrypting each part of the hybrid Cloud with separate keys
o … amongst other measures

22. 5. Adding in Mobility
Mobile Devices
•Are powerful cloud access devices
•Extend the perimeter of your cloud
•Disperse the perimeter to your cloud
Have the potential to increase the vulnerability
•The compromising of one of these mobile devices could
be significant and compromise your entire cloud.
•Use policy based key management regimes for your data.

23. 6. BYOD or Bring Your Own Disaster?
BYOD stands for Bring Your Own Device,
•Reflects the increasing demands of users and organisations
of their own IT departments to be increasingly agile and
responsive to their needs when it comes to iPads, tablets and
other mobile devices.
•Read the NIST Draft Guidelines
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/drafts/800-
124r1/draft_sp800-124-rev1.pdf

24. 6. BYOD or Bring Your Own Disaster?
BYOD requires management:
•Deploy Mobile Device Management systems (Remote wipe, policy
enforcement)
•Introduce a non-porous Virtual Desktop environment - No data can
flow between the Cloud system and the mobile device itself
•Containerisation:
• Segregates corporate from personal data and applications
• Enforces encryption and prevention of data leakage
between containers
• Application / device specific therefore can be a challenge
to expand across the entire mobile environment for all
applications.

25. 7 . Hybrid Cloud + Mobility + BYOD  Systemic Risk?
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26. 8. Standards? Which standards?
Plethora of forums, industry groups and associations
– Cloud Security Alliance
– Cloud Standards Customer Council
– Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF)
– Cloud Management Working Group (CMWG)
– The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)
– National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
– Open Grid Forum (OGF)
– Object Management Group (OMG)
– Open Cloud Consortium (OCC)
– Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS)
– Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA)
– The Open Group
– Association for Retail Technology Standards (ARTS)
– TM Forum’s Cloud Services Initiative
Source: cloud-standards.org

27. 8. Standards? Which standards?
• Compliance standards were originally designed for on-premise IT
systems and infrastructure that were relatively static
• Auditing institutions are averse to cutting edge technologies
• Is your organisation (or parts thereof) standards/compliance driven?
– Compliance to Standards vs. Unimpeded Innovation based on
principle of caveat emptor?
• Regulators not providing much specific and concrete guidance on
Cloud

28. 9. Orchestrating the Transition
#1: Adopt an integrated approach to enterprise Cloud
• Standardised, traditional methodologies within specific
disciplines such as IT security, project management, audit, and
information security, in and of themselves, can be self limiting.
• Each discipline and/or technology is only really effective when
applied actively coordinated with the other key moving parts of
the organisation
 Harmonization of functionally specific methodologies and
technologies unleashes value and eliminates waste
 Cloud solutions may or may not help!

29. 9. Orchestrating the Transition
#2: Manage the conflicting messages
• 24% of CEOs surveyed in the 2012 PWC CEO Survey expect ‘major
change’.
• The eighth annual KPMG 2012 Audit Institute Report identified “IT
Risk and Emerging Technologies” as the second-highest concern for
audit committees, which is unprecedented in the history of the report.
• Cloud evangelists see cloud as imperative, others not
• Rigorously test generic, enterprise Cloud policy statements in the
context of your business unit, agency or department. Map and
quantify the gaps
 Develop an effective mechanism for interpreting these messages in
the context of your organisation

30. 9. Orchestrating the Transition
#3: Actively identify, embrace and managing shadow IT
“Shadow IT can create risks of data loss, corruption or misuse, and
risks of inefficient and disconnected processes and information”
– Gartner*
 Embrace shadow IT, and define what and what is not eligible to
be considered enterprise IT
 Develop, socialize and police appropriate policies on the
selection of Cloud based services, no matter how innocuous for
your key information assets.
*CIO New Year's Resolutions, 2012 ID:G00227785)

31. 9. Orchestrating the Transition
#4: Identify systemic risks across the organisation
• Systemic risks can jeopardise all or major parts of the
organisation
 Ensure your executives and key decision makers are aware of
long term, systemic risks
 Understand the systemic risks inherent in long lead time IT
projects where Cloud plays a critical part
 Consider implementing Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)

32. 9. Orchestrating the Transition
#5: Don’t gloss over complexity
• Senior LOB managers with agency and/or functional responsibility
over specific vertical silos of the organisation may underestimate
the overall complexity of their own organisations as a whole.
• From a functional perspective, specific methodologies and
technologies exist to support specific activities, however
integration can be the Achilles heel for single instance Cloud
applications.
• Cost your medium / long term Cloud strategy with rigour.
 Don’t believe that simple IT solutions can paper over underlying
business complexity. Test assumptions if critical.

33. ThankYou!
ROB LIVINGSTONE
- Fellow, University of Technology, Sydney
- Principal, Rob Livingstone Advisory Pty Ltd
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