Chambers: Cloud computing is a security nightmare and it can't be handled in traditional ways."

Cloud computing a 'security nightmare,' says Cisco CEO

Swamp computing might be a more appropriate name says one security expert

John Chambers: "It is a security nightmare and it can't be handled in traditional ways."

Speaking during a keynote address at the annual security confab, Chambers said that cloud computing was inevitable, but that it would shake up the way that networks are secured. "You'll have no idea what's in the corporate data center," he said. "That is exciting to me as a network player. Boy am I going to sell a lot of stuff to tie that together."

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