Cloud Computing: EU to developers – Your encryption is lacking

Grazed from TheHill. Author: Cory Bennett.

The European Union updated its guidelines for protecting personal information under EU data security laws, which are more stringent than those in the U.S. In short, EU officials told developers they were doing a bad job encrypting data. While all the basic building blocks of good encryption methods exist, they said, implementation is lacking and testing is ineffective.

“The scientific study of such protocols can be said to be still not mature enough,” said the report, which was compiled by the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA). EU officials have also encouraged companies to ensure the U.S. government does not have unfettered access to EU citizens’ data…

In response, major U.S. cloud computing companies have been launching EU-only data centers so customer data does not have to flow between the U.S. and EU…

Read more from the source @ http://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/225196-eu-to-developers-your-encryption-is-lacking