FBI approves cloud computing services for limited use
October 3, 2013
Grazed from ProofPoint. Author: Editorial Staff.
The cloud’s reputation for security appears to be steadily growing as cloud services continue to gain wide endorsement. Recently, the FBI announced its approval for certain uses of cloud computing technology. According to GovInfoSecurity, the FBI’s new policy clarifies that law enforcement agencies can use cloud services to process criminal justice information, but stipulates that commercial cloud service models are still not approved for use in Criminal Justice Information Services environments – at least not as they have traditionally existed.
This provision relates primarily to the ways in which cloud providers’ metadata functions mine the data of organizations using their services. "The metadata derived from [criminal justice information] shall not be used by any cloud service provider for any purposes," the FBI’s policy dictates, according to the news source…
"The cloud service provider shall be prohibited from scanning any email or data files for the purpose of building analytics, data mining, advertising or improving the services provided."…
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