Former NSA director advocates for thin client cloud security model
June 24, 2014
Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Eric B. Parizo.
More than a year after Edward Snowden leaked confidential information about the breadth of the National Security Agency’s domestic intelligence-gathering, the former head of the NSA staunchly defended the agency’s actions while advocating for enterprises to adopt the computing paradigm that helps keep the NSA’s systems secure.
In a keynote address Tuesday at the 2014 Gartner Inc. Security & Risk Management Summit, retired U.S. Army General Keith B. Alexander, who led the NSA for nearly nine years and since 2010 the U.S. Cyber Command as well, said the NSA’s bulk metadata collection programs are vital to U.S. efforts to thwart terrorism, support U.S. military operations and ultimately keep Americans safe…
Alexander referenced the growing violence around the world, specifically citing more than 1,700 executions at the hands of the Islamic State Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and commonplace terror events in places like Yemen, Somalia, Northern Africa, Afghanistan and Pakistan. He also cited data from the University of Maryland, which reported that in 2013 there were more than 11,000 terror attacks around the world and more than 20,000 deaths as a result…
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