http://www.soamag.com The SOA Magazine is a monthly online publication provided by SOA Systems Inc. and Prentice Hall/PearsonPTR and is officially associated with the "Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl." SOA en-us Copyright 2006-2007, SOA Systems Inc. http://www.soamag.com/I37/0310-2.php Cloud computing enables the delivery of scalable and available capabilities by leveraging dynamic and on-demand infrastructure. By leveraging these modern service technology advances and various pervasive Internet technologies, the "cloud" represents an abstraction of services and resources, such that the underlying complexities of the technical implementations are encapsulated and transparent from users and consumer programs interacting with the cloud. Cloud-based services and service-oriented solutions deployed on cloud platforms can typically leverage and be designed with existing security frameworks. However, the fact that some or all parts of a given service composition reside in an environment external to the controlled IT enterprise raises several additional security considerations... SOA http://www.soamag.com/contributors/bio-dchou.php#When:03.01.10