Mourad Ben Lakhoua is an Information Security practitioner specializing in Cybersecurity, Penetration Testing, Risk Management, Cloud Computing, Social Media and Network System Security. He is working as a security researcher at Tunisian Computer Emergency and Response Team tun-CERT.

Mourad has extensive experience with multiple security issues, including cryptography, host and network hardening, resilient architecture, and application security. 

In 2005 he successfully completed a Masters Degree in Information Security where he handled and managed extensive research in Global IT Security.

For more of Mourad's analysis, be sure to visit his information security blog at: http://www.sectechno.com, and be sure to follow him on Twitter at http://twitter.com/Mbenlakhoua.

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The Datacenter of the Cloud provider should be more secure than your own datacenter!
Don`t forget your backup!