Data sovereignty and the cloud: How do we fully control data amidst the cloud sprawl?

September 10, 2015 Off By David

Grazed from CloudTech. Author: David Auslander.

One of the basic tenets of cloud computing is the ability to provide access to resources across a geographically dispersed cloud environment. This makes the cloud ideal for global distribution of applications and data. But what about those geographies that have highly restrictive data sovereignty laws or practices, such as Germany, Austria and South Korea? What about governmental bodies attempting to protect information while utilising the cloud?

An interesting example is the German government which, in certain circumstances, will require that data on German companies and their employees never leave German soil and that only German citizens be allowed to administer said data. These data sovereignty (DS) scenarios and many others present a challenge for organizations in terms of protecting the data entrusted to them while cutting costs and gaining efficiencies associated with the cloud…

From a business standpoint, these organisations are charged with protecting information about their business, customers, users or governments. Unauthorised access to private customer data, governmental assets or corporate assets could be devastating. We need look no further than the recent state sponsored attack on US federal government employee databases to see the effect of these types of breaches…

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