First Cryptography Advisory Board Formed for Cloud Security
October 3, 2014
Grazed from WallStreet and Tech. Author: Becca Lipman.
Skyhigh Networks assembles a board of cryptography experts to consider a range of academically vetted cryptographic solutions that do not reduce functionality. A group of accomplished experts in cryptography research have announced they are forming what is believed to be the first industry-focused Cryptography Advisory Board. The board will provide oversight of encryption schemes for cloud security to ease the adoption of cloud services.
Data security continues to be one of the major hurdles preventing companies from moving data to the cloud, and for good reason. Enterprises worry about cloud data breaches, NSA surveillance, and court orders that can subpoena documents holding sensitive information (with which many cloud providers willingly comply). Increasingly, firms want to secure files with encryption to hinder outside parties who access sensitive documents from being able to read them...
“The problems that the industry is starting to solve are very challenging,” says board member Ari Juels, professor at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech, and former chief scientist of RSA. When companies place data in the cloud it’s up to the cloud providers to make sure policies are enforced. There’s growing interest in the industry to take back power from cloud providers, and that creates some technical tensions. “Cryptography helps, but it has to be implemented well, and rigorously.”…
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