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Gartner has released its 2009 Hype Cycle Report about technology trends. Cloud computing made the list. There is definitely a developing hype surrounding cloud technologies. As more and more companies jump on the cloud bandwagon, the true nature – and benefits – of these technologies become increasingly amorphous. However, concerns about the security of cloud computing as it relates to health care may have been over hyped, as well. In fact, one can easily make the argument that it is easier to monitor and maintain security in a hosted cloud model than it is for a client-server, considering that a typical application using a legacy client server is wired separately to the Internet. This makes for a distributed nightmare of a mess — with questionable protections that are potentially vulnerable. Historically, the majority of security breaches have occurred with this computing model (if not from a stolen laptop!) All you have to do is look at your own PC every time you connect to the Internet and witness the barrage of messages about virus protection to get a sense for this. Who is securing your connection and protecting your data? Some pre-packaged and potentially out of date virus protection software with some dubious firewall, or a group of top-notch engineers equipped with monitoring and protection tools more powerful than the hackers?