Cloud Computing, the NSA, and Why Businesses Should Care
February 6, 2014
Grazed from SysCon Media. Author: Chris Bliss.
Listen: as cloud computing consultants, we drink the cloud computing koolaid. We’ve implemented cloud-based software for businesses of all sizes, across just about every industry. We’ve seen it revolutionize how businesses work. We’ve also seen security become a very real and increasingly serious concern.
Don’t worry, it’s safe!
When we first began showing cloud-based software to clients, the idea of storing your data remotely was a new concept. Like clockwork, clients were all concerned about security. Is my data safe? What happens if the software company folds? Can we be hacked? Like good cloud computing consultants everywhere, we’d listen, smile, shake our heads, and explain why clients needn’t worry, how storing your data on 3rd party servers was safer than storing it locally, how Google had armed guards…
And that was all true. In many ways, top-of-class cloud-based software tools do deliver top-notch security. But in other ways, those early clients had prescient concerns. The shift to cloud computing has – in subtle and not-so-subtle ways – followed a fundamental shift in data and how we think of property writ large. Lets rewind…
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