My recent posts have been introspective, reflecting on the state of information security. I feel the urge, especially now a few days before RSA, to venture into the future rather than address the present. Since I am shy of future telling, I will focus on a call for action: what I think should happen in information security in the coming years. Next week on the RSA exhibition floor, we will all see if 2012 will see the beginning of those trends.
Saying that, my first post is about an area that I think will be center stage this year: security in the cloud.
In recent weeks I have met several companies focusing on innovating security intelligence. Those encounters brought up an interesting challenge facing such innovations: in most cases innovators have a good idea but find it too expensive to build the required infrastructure. There is no use for an icing for a cake you cannot bake after all. 
As Google Apps become more popular in organzations, the security issue takes central stage. The 
