Moving to cloud - make sure you ask all the right questions first

Read pretty much any survey of IT decision makers from the last few years and you will be sure that security fear is the biggest single thing stopping them from migrating into the cloud. Truth be told, the latest bit of research from Interxion isn't hugely different but it does throw an interesting aside into the mix by including SLA's alongside security as the biggest barrier to cloud adoption. Some 45 percent of those asked said a lack of both security and SLAs were their primary cloud concerns. This led me to thinking, what should you be asking of your provider in terms of a cloud security service level agreement or CSSLA as I insist they become known as from now on?