Cloud computing voted as fundamentally insecure

Grazed from Inquirer. Author: Carly Page.

That’s the opinion of 83 percent of our readers, who voiced their distrust in cloud services during last week’s INQUIRER debate. During the debate, Dr Lee Gillan, senior lecturer at the Department of Computing at the University of Surrey, argued for the statement that ‘the cloud is fundamentally secure’, while technology commentator Chris Merriman argued against it.

At the debate’s close on Friday, it appears that the majority of INQUIRER readers agreed with Chris. A landslide 83 percent voted that the cloud is not fundamentally secure and were keen to say why. One reader said: "I’m sorry but there’s no way on earth the cloud is more secure than traditional IT systems…

"Putting all your content online – there’s always that risk that there’ll be that hacker capable of getting their mitts on your sensitive info. While it’s an enabler, it’ll never be more secure."…

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