Hosting network services on Cloud platforms is getting more and more popular. It is not in the scope of this article to elaborate the advantage of using Cloud computing, instead, as the title of might have already inspired you, here we discuss the potential benefits available to malicious entities in using a Cloud platform (CP). In particular, we are going to see:
Twitter user @mgleet tipped me off that Apple appears to have bumped his iCloud storage plan to 25 GBs until the year 2050. Multiple people here at TUAW are seeing the same plan bumps, though none of us has upgraded our plans, not to mention paid 38 years in advance.
Apple has been known to offer cloud storage upgrades for free in the past when their online services didn't live up to expectations (MobileMe). Could this be a way Apple is apologizing for the Maps debacle?
As customer data is spread evenly across the cloud, even if a server is brought down, customer data cannot easily be retrieved.
The company is a new player to the tech field, launching earlier this year. The cloud-based VPN service offers "true" anonymity and protection of the user's data through strong encryption protocols, according to the firm -- and may be of particular interest to those trying to circumvent location-based restrictions online.
Is the public cloud secure enough for mission-critical applications? That's the persistent question that IT departments struggle to answer.
For OpSource—not to mention Amazon Web Services (AWS), Rackspace, Terremark and others—the answer is a layer 2 virtual LAN. In OpSource's case, customers connect to the cloud using VPN clients or site-to-site VPN terminations. This makes the public cloud an extension of the private cloud, making it a secure, hybrid cloud.
Research by the Ponemon Institute found half of the 4000 business and IT managers surveyed host sensitive or confidential data in cloud environments.
It also found 61 per cent of respondents believe cloud adoption has increased their companies' security posture.
Like it or not, technology is becoming ever more reliant on the cloud, and that has both positive and negative ramifications. On the positive side, cloud computing has opened up a whole new world of productivity that didn’t fully exist before services like Google Docs and Office 365 came into view. On a more personal scale, the cloud flipped the entertainment industry on its head with online music lockers that make it possible to access playlists and rock out to your ZZ Top albums wherever there’s an internet connection.
About half of the information technology and security professionals asked whether they use external cloud-based services for sensitive or confidential data said they did -- but their approaches to encrypting data in the cloud vary widely, according to the findings of the survey published today.
Apple co-founder Steve "Woz" Wozniak isn't exactly bullish about the overhyped cloud.
We put more and more of ourselves in the cloud every day. E-mail, device settings, data synchronization between devices, and access to much of our digital selves is tied to a handful of cloud service accounts with Google, Apple, Microsoft, Dropbox, and others. As demonstrated dramatically over the last week, those accounts are easily put at risk if they’re too interconnected—especially since the weakest link in cloud security may be the employees of the providers themselves.
No one is more vigilant about protecting the data of EU citizens than European Commission Vice-President Viviane Reding. She is spearheading and vigorously advocating for the Commission's proposals to update and modernize the privacy framework in Europe through a detailed new Regulation. She worries a lot about the privacy and security of EU citizens' data. And she can be a tough critic of the US privacy protection framework.
