CSA warns PRISM is very bad news for US cloud providers

Grazed from CloudTech. Author: James Bourne.

The after-effects of PRISM means that companies are much less likely to use US-based cloud service providers (CSPs), according to a survey from the Cloud Security Alliance. 56% were less likely to use US-based providers, with one in 10 going as far to say that they’d cancelled a project which used US CSPs as a result. Only 3%, interestingly, said their confidence in US vendors had increased.

It’s noticeable that, from the vendors’ perspective, their confidence had not been diminished. 64% said the incident had not hindered their prospects of conducting business outside the US. Yet in terms of general security policy, respondents did not feel at ease about governmental transparency and legitimacy. Almost half (47%) of those polled said that their country’s processes in obtaining criminal information were “poor…there is no transparency in the process and I have no idea how often the government accesses my information.”…

As loaded a question as that sounds, in comparison only 10% said their country’s data accessing was “excellent”. The NSA PRISM surveillance program, for those who have been residing beneath a gravel-like substance for the past few months, was first initiated in 2007 and gains direct access to the systems of major tech companies, including Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft, able to tap into user information such as emails and stored data…

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