Snowden NSA Leaks Rattle Cloud Customers Worldwide
July 25, 2013
Grazed from Channelnomics. Author: Chris Gonsalves.
As predicted, the events surrounding the leaks of NSA surveillance activities by Edward Snowden are having broad repercussions in the IT industry as companies rethink their cloud computing deployment plans amid security and privacy concerns, according to a new survey.
The data from the Cloud Security Alliance indicates growing reluctance to engage cloud services providers, particularly outside the United States, where concerns raised by the Snowden leaks about the integrity of data center assets housed in the U.S. are at an all-time high…
“The results point to a great deal of concern as to the impact on commercial cloud computing activities as a consequence of [the Snowden incident],” the CSA report authors wrote, adding that key stakeholders in the matter should “have a public dialogue to discuss issues of citizen privacy and transparency in addition to the very important topic of maintaining a nation’s security.”…
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