A white paper from CloudSwitch, entitled Making Cloud Computing Secure for the Enterprise, looks at the challenges of ensuring security in a public cloud.

"Many companies are eager to take advantage of cloud computing, but concerns about possible security breaches and loss of data hold them back," the white paper states. "Trust -- or lack of it -- is one of the primary reasons for the hesitancy of enterprises to put their data and applications in a multi-tenant public cloud. Security issues associated with third-party cloud environments continue to prevent organizations from benefiting from the cost savings and flexibility that the cloud can offer."

Click here to access the CloudSwitch white paper.