The Quick Guide to Cloud Computing and Cyber Security

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Table of Contents

Title Page

What is Cloud Computing?

First let’s take a look at what the cloud is. No, it is not those pretty blue clouds that you might be familiar with from all those Windows-based desktop backgrounds.

So what is the cloud?

Before getting into the whole cloud and cyber security issue, there is something that is worth mentioning. That is the way