One of the most frequently used tools to fight forest fires is … more fire! At first blush, this approach is counter-intuitive. But, the use of “back burns” to reduce the amount of flammable material and ultimately control the fire itself is a well-known and effective technique. The irony of “fighting fire with fire” lies at the heart of this month’s (May 2010) question on the Mitre cloud computing blog:
“How could a government system be more resilient to attack if hosted on a public cloud computing model versus a private one, and what are the added vulnerabilities the government would need to consider?”
