[samtheman]

These are basically all related to the same problem, but I’m putting them all in this post for my own ease-of-lookup.

http://www.novainfosecportal.com/2012/05/08/is-the-dirty-disk-problem-the-first-practical-chink-in-cloud-securitys-armour/

http://www.thedatacave.com/dirty-disks-and-cloud-security

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/042612-cloud-dirty-disks-258731.html

http://www.businesscomputingworld.co.uk/dirty-disks-raise-new-questions-about-cloud-security/

http://esj.com/blogs/enterprise-insights/2012/04/dirty-disks-cloud-security-risk.aspx

[Dan Nunn]

Interesting articles, and I appreciate you sharing them, though it does look like it’s not an issue at the major cloud providers like Amazon and Rackspace. Additionally, storing static data inside specialized storage services like S3 and database content in hosted SQL services like RDS would further reduce the risk of any data breach, as the services cannot be accessed at a low level as ordinary VM volumes can.