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Cloud-based services are being rolled out without enough attention being paid to securing these services and the information they handle. That was the finding of a recent study commissioned by RSA Security.

While the report’s findings are alarming, there is still time for providers of these services to address the problem, said Art Coviello, executive vice president at EMC and president of RSA Security. The key is to look at security as an integral part of the service and not as an add-on feature, he said.

Coviello recently sat down with IDG News Service to discuss the security of cloud-based services. What follows is an edited transcript of that conversation:

The debate over security is set to continue, before it gets emotional, consider the two basic premises, we select cloud for applications or services that are suited to it in line with our business, related is that the issue over data security, over legislation could be argued is a vendor/service provider issue. I’m buying the service, you do the rest, of course there is due diligence, there is responsibility, but we need to not detract ourselves with difficulties and establish, how we can utilize a form of cloud in our business. It might not be that I take my internal email system and place it online to a service provider, but rather I have London host and power the email system, that there might be distribution nodes, but the core platform is run, paid for and billable to London IT, with a pay on use, pay on user account fee, rather than a regional email system team.

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