Cloud across borders: Best practices for global cloud privacy and security

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Neil McEvoy.

The issue of deploying and managing a cloud across international borders is highlighted by the Edward Snowden incident, which revealed extensive government surveillance through the PRISM initiative — heightening paranoia that any data hosted in the cloud is increasingly at risk of this type of snooping.

However, is this paranoia valid? And if so, what are the best practices for securing your information in an age of cloud across borders? While the world is still in its early days of coping with cloud governance, what is more immediately clear is the role cloud providers and security technologies will play in meeting this evolving challenge…

Information privacy and the cloud

In light of these incidents, IT pros and enterprises must determine if these privacy threats are somehow uniquely relevant to the cloud, especially if hosted in the U.S. The perceived fear of these risks alone drives market demand outside of the U.S., causing a ripple effect that could hammer the U.S. cloud hosting industry…

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