More evidence that the Cloud is not only ready for the enterprise, but is already being used.

From GigaOm (emphasis mine):

“I spoke with founding member Paul Kurtz, partner at Good Harbor Consulting, to get some details on the news — and I was a little surprised by what he had to say. While questions still remain in areas like data retrieval and identity management, Kurtz believes cloud computing is already secure enough to be used by large enterprises for mission-critical tasks. In fact, he thinks there are many security advantages to cloud computing. These include rapid software updates and upgrades, and, depending on the provider, multifactor authentication. It’s the outsourcing of IT operations to a third party that makes execs “swallow hard,” but he notes that even large banks already have run SAS 70 audits and assured themselves they can get what they need from the cloud.”

Good Harbor is led by none other than Richard Clarke. Richard Clarke was the White House Advisor on terrorism, among other prominent security postions.  You know who else ran a little operation called CTU that dealt with this sort of thing?

Or maybe more like Chloe since it sounds like he knows his way around a firewall: he was the Special Advisor to the President for Cyber Security.

And if Chloe says the Cloud is ready, who are we to argue?