Greg Young

The blogosphere and vendorsphere is shrill with talk about cloud security.  I’ve started translating these rants by replacing the word "cloud" with "PKI", and if the assertion still makes sense, I ignore it.

This morning I delivered a presentation on In the Cloud Security at the Gartner Enterprise Network Conference (and yes, I self-assessed by applying the cloud/PKI replacement algorithm .  Just beforehand, one of our events staff saw the title and was humming a Joni Mitchell song. 

Joni was so ahead of her time.  Feel free to hum a few bars from Both Sides Now next time someone gets cloud-shrill:

(security vendors: forte in relievio)
Rows and flows of angel hair
And ice cream castles in the air
And feather canyons everywhere
I’ve looked at clouds that way

(bloggers: fortissimo al niente)
But now they only block the sun
They rain and snow on everyone
So many things I would have done
But clouds got in my way

(network security chorus: sotto vocce)
I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down, and still somehow
It’s cloud illusions I recall
I really don’t know clouds at all

(http://jonimitchell.com/musician/song.cfm?id=BothSidesNow)

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