Thanks for the highly informative article. There are of course tradeoffs between security and convenience, in terms of the cloud. In our experience security usually trails far behind convenience, and you wind up discovering that nothing is as secure as you thought it might be. This is greatly complicated by the whole BYOD paradigm and figuring out how to secure intranets on devices that employees carry around and expose to every situation imaginable, such as the ubiquitous wireless access at a Starbucks.