From here on, the mechanism for procuring
information technology (IT) resources will undergo
dramatic changes as the era of Cloud computing
arrives. For the corporate world, however, a major
obstacle to adopting Cloud computing is security.
Countermeasures against data loss in the Cloud
(data in Cloud [DIC]) are the next big security
issue. However, this does not mean to say that
corporate security requirements and governance
and legal obligations are going to change. In
the same way as when countermeasures against
internal data loss are applied today in the DAR,
DIM, and DIU scenarios, it will be necessary to
determine where data is located (or from where
and to where it is being moved) and to determine
whether appropriate IT control is being applied
to it. Countermeasures against data loss also
need to be applied to the DIC scenario.