Comments on: Security Questions to Ask Before Engaging with Cloud Providers http://gigaom.com/2010/12/27/security-questions-to-ask-before-engaging-with-cloud-providers/ Sun, 19 May 2013 23:10:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Roberto http://gigaom.com/2010/12/27/security-questions-to-ask-before-engaging-with-cloud-providers/#comment-585003 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 15:51:01 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=277568#comment-585003 “Far more important than physical security is data encryption and how your cloud provider leverages it to protect your data.”

I agree, encryption is the *only* valid security model for your data in the cloud.

There is no certificate to proof security. And no compliance test like SAS-70 to help you out if the attack on you data is malicious.

Only technical inability of the cloud provider to access your data (host proof hosting) will give you a high grade of security.

]]> By: fred de almeida http://gigaom.com/2010/12/27/security-questions-to-ask-before-engaging-with-cloud-providers/#comment-561237 Tue, 28 Dec 2010 01:02:59 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=277568#comment-561237 Security is undermined by the cloud when Amazon or any other cloud service can unilaterally without a warrant or a even a charge (which is not primae facie enough anyway. How do I know if my content is going to be taken down? What guidelines exist? There seems to be none. It depends entirely on the personalities behind these services. Any enterprise that places their data in the cloud better home that the firms they do so with enjoy their company. Build your own cloud. It isn’t that hard and at least you won’t be censored outright without due process.

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