The security risks of migrating legacy applications to the cloud [Q&A]

Enterprise use of the public cloud is taking off in a big way and it's estimated that by 2018, half of the applications running in public cloud environments will be considered mission-critical by the organizations that use them. But migrating legacy applications to the cloud can lead to new security risks as how the application is used and hosted could differ from the original deployment. We spoke to Drew Kilbourne, Managing Director at application security specialist Cigital to find out more about the risks and how to manage them. BN: What are the risks of taking legacy applications into a… [Continue Reading]