Think about all of the critical data and IT systems that are moving into the
cloud these days. Consumer credit reporting, enterprise CRM and sales force
automation, customer support systems, banking and stock trading, foreign
exchange, DNS management, email security… the list goes on and on, and it
is only going to accelerate. Imagine if any one of the above services that
you or your company uses were accessed by a hacker or competitor.
Greg Conti, an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the US Military
Academy in West Point, gave a talk at Defcon last week about the dangers of
cloud computing. “The information we are all giving to online companies is
massive and dangerous and [security's] going to get worse before it gets
better.” This has spurred renewed debate i... (more)