Data mining puts cloud security back on agenda
June 20, 2013
Grazed from Reuters. Author: Alistair Blair.
Concerns about security in the cloud are flaring anew after recent revelations about government data-mining, likely spurring new technology to protect corporate and consumer information, according to a panel of cloud experts. Reports that the National Security Agency (NSA) secretly gathers user data from nine big Internet companies, including Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) and Google Inc (GOOG.O), have dented confidence in cloud computing, especially among customers outside the United States.
The reports have triggered debate over how far the government can go in its quest to enhance national security, and also provoked outrage from many non-U.S. users depending on large American Internet corporations for everything from email to Internet storage to social networking, industry executives told the Reuters Global Technology Summit on Wednesday…
"Are people concerned about doing business in the United States and what the U.S. could do with their data? The answer is yes," RackSpace Chief Technology Officer John Engates said. "It’s something as a country we need to figure out, how to allay some of the fears about data moving through the United States." "That’s partly why people are gravitating toward the idea of private clouds that you can run in other countries."…
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