Has PRISM made the cloud unsafe?
July 8, 2013
Grazed from CSO. Author: David Braue.
A survey found that data encryption practices amongst cloud providers vary widely, while a privacy advocate was suggesting that the recent revelations about the US government’s PRISM data-filtering program should make businesses think twice about their use of cloud computing and a European Commission report suggested PRISM was harming the business of US cloud providers.
Even as planned July 4 online protests against PRISM seemed to fall flat, caution was being advised regarding disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) services, even more so because of the increasingly apparent number of ways that governments are spying on citizens online. Things have gotten so bad that the European Union approved stricted penalties for cyber-attacks and suspended data-sharing deals with the US in the wake of the PRISM revelations…
The Google Play app store is still serving up Android adware, one audit has found – something that will come as no surprise to the more than half of consumers that say they’ve been the victim of bad apps. Games are the most common vector for attack, even as BYOD is increasingly fingered as leading to widespread security threats. With BYOD and other security issues continuing, one CSO was emphasising the importance of business-focused security metrics…
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