Who Watches the Watchmen, Part 3: Flying Headlong Into a Cloud
By Richard Adhikari, TechNewsWorld
“Once you’re in the cloud, information doesn’t belong only to you but also to the provider of the cloud service,” Sorin Mustaca, a data security expert at Avira, told TechNewsWorld.
The risks involved in moving to the cloud include the possibility that the cloud provider could be hacked by external cybercriminals or rogue employees. There’s also the risk of the cloud provider going bankrupt, causing customers to lose their data, Sorin pointed out.
“The cloud is a generic concept which can’t actually be used without personalizing it,” Mustaca said.
Enterprises and government agencies should only move to the cloud after they have identified what they need and expect from the cloud service, and have set security and privacy policies.
“People think that if they move their computers and services to the cloud, they make the problems disappear,” Mustaca remarked. “But the problems don’t vanish; they simply move to the cloud.”
Cloud service providers must guarantee a minimum level of security and privacy, but the differences between vendors’ offerings “are sometimes significant,” Mustaca warned.
Going to a big provider doesn’t necessarily mean you’re any safer than if you went to a smaller one.
“It doesn’t matter how big the provider is; it can still be hacked if the correct security policies aren’t set up,” Mustaca said.
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