Bruce Schneier has an compelling piece up today, debunking a piece in “Dark Reading” regarding the potential for a terrorist attack on “cloud servers”.

Please take a look at Bruce’s evaluation of the threat…

Schneier on Security: Terrorist Risk of Cloud Computing: “Terrorist Risk of Cloud Computing”

But in my opinion, there is a risk, but only due to two reasons:

1) Poor design & management of the cloud servers. They would be at risk, only if they did not properly have a secondary site, along with off site backups.

2) Poor design & management of the data center. I can foresee the potential for having large data centers, but once again, if those servers in the data centers are not backed up offsite, and have offsite roll-over servers then they are vulnerable to be taken “out”.

Overall, a properly managed company would have this figured up with their disaster recovery plans.