Locking the feds and thieves out
So should consumers add security to their cloud storage repositories to keep their data even more secure from prying providers and government snoops? Absolutely, says Heiser.
That’s because many data breaches involve frustrated service provider employees who see treasure-troves of data as a way to make a quick buck. “There are repeated stories … of rogue employees who collect data to sell to credit card fraudsters,” Heiser said. “It is an issue with provider staff morale.”
Apart from downloading freeware, such as TruCrypt, and encrypting every folder or file before it’s uploaded to the cloud, new automated tools are emerging that handle the job of cloud storage security more seamlessly.
SafeNet, for example, just launched a beta of SafeMonk, which adds a secure encryption log-in to Dropbox. Essentially, the data you store in Dropbox can’t even be accessed by Dropbox itself because users get to keep the encryption keys.
Ironically, SafeNet also happens to be one of the largest suppliers of encryption technology to the U.S. government.
via How to keep the feds from snooping on your cloud data – Computerworld.
Report: Amazon Is Building the CIA’s New Cloud Computing System | Gizmodo (Jamie Condliffe)
The CIA has reportedly signed a massive cloud computing deal with Amazon, worth up to $600 million over the next 10 years.
FCW reports that its sources have told it Amazon will build a private cloud infrastructure for the CIA, to help it “keep up with emerging technologies like big data in a cost-effective manner not possible under the CIA’s previous cloud efforts”.
Both Amazon and the CIA have declined to comment ion the matter, according to FCW. However, the CIA’s Central Intelligence Agency Chief Information Officer, Jeanne Tisinger, recently told an audience at the Northern Virginia Technology Council that the agency was hoping to leverage the commercial sector’s innovation cycle.
via Report: Amazon Is Building the CIA’s New Cloud Computing System.
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