Comments on: Google: Cloud Apps Are MORE Secure, Not Less http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/interview/interview-security/google-cloud-apps-are-more-secure-not-less-1410 Enhancing business with technology - in association with eweek.com Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:33:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: David Salamack http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/interview/interview-security/google-cloud-apps-are-more-secure-not-less-1410#comment-32581 David Salamack Fri, 15 Oct 2010 15:57:15 +0000 http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/interview/interview-security/google-cloud-apps-are-more-secure-not-less-1410#comment-32581 Someone told me after reading this article that your data is always safer in the confines of your own basement than out in the cloud. My response: Your data is only safer locked up in your basement until the basement floods. As long as you are responsible for the back-up, encryption, business continuance and disaster recovery plans (don't forget updating, administering, testing these plans and all the infrastructure involved in delivery of these services) than I have to agree with you that IN is safer than OUT. However, few organizations (even huge non-IT companies) have the resources to perform all I have explained above (and that's pointed out in the article). If they have the resources, they are hard pressed to perform better at a lower cost. If you run a no-risk accepted business (like the military) then keeping your data inside is for you. However, every business runs with some level of acceptable risk and the cloud is just that, an acceptable minimal risk compared to keeping it all inside. Someone told me after reading this article that your data is always safer in the confines of your own basement than out in the cloud. My response:

Your data is only safer locked up in your basement until the basement floods. As long as you are responsible for the back-up, encryption, business continuance and disaster recovery plans (don’t forget updating, administering, testing these plans and all the infrastructure involved in delivery of these services) than I have to agree with you that IN is safer than OUT. However, few organizations (even huge non-IT companies) have the resources to perform all I have explained above (and that’s pointed out in the article). If they have the resources, they are hard pressed to perform better at a lower cost.

If you run a no-risk accepted business (like the military) then keeping your data inside is for you. However, every business runs with some level of acceptable risk and the cloud is just that, an acceptable minimal risk compared to keeping it all inside.

]]> By: poop guy http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/interview/interview-security/google-cloud-apps-are-more-secure-not-less-1410#comment-28602 poop guy Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:25:11 +0000 http://www.eweekeurope.co.uk/interview/interview-security/google-cloud-apps-are-more-secure-not-less-1410#comment-28602 does not this sound like the days of terminal/mainframe computing where the data and applications that existed on the company mainframe were accesses via lightweight terminals. Then, as computers became so affordable people wanted them in the home, in the car, in their pockets and as they became 'thinner' clients we started to put our data on the cloud. This is all well for accessing and manipulating corporate data, each with its own cloud, but I think that 100 million plus users pouring personal data into a single cloud is a bit scary. poop and pee is what goes in the toilet. does not this sound like the days of terminal/mainframe computing where the data and applications that existed on the company mainframe were accesses via lightweight terminals. Then, as computers became so affordable people wanted them in the home, in the car, in their pockets and as they became ‘thinner’ clients we started to put our data on the cloud. This is all well for accessing and manipulating corporate data, each with its own cloud, but I think that 100 million plus users pouring personal data into a single cloud is a bit scary. poop and pee is what goes in the toilet.

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