Is cloud computing secure enough for spies? CIA bets on Amazon
March 2, 2015
Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols.
When you think spy agencies and the cloud, you probably think about the National Security Agency (NSA) snooping on the cloud. Well, guess what? Intelligence agencies use the cloud for their own IT as well. Or, at least the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), aka the Company, does with its own private Amazon cloud.
Why would the CIA do this? Well, as Michael McConnell, former director of the National Security Agency, said in 2012, "The economics of the cloud are so compelling they can’t be denied. [But,] we have to get the security aspects right." So while I’m sure the CIA’s cloud takes the notion of a private cloud to new levels, it’s not going to share its cloud security secrets…
The core technology is AWS, but this cloud, as a Government Executive writer put it, is "a public cloud built on private premises." The CIA has, however, been more forthcoming about what else it’s going to do with its cloud…
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