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The Myth of the Secure Cloud

BY Nina Cunningham
October 02, 2017

In 2014, now a decade ago in cyber-time, I interviewed TecSec CEO and security specialist, Jay Wack. I asked about the security of the cloud, which at the time was starting to transform the storage of electronic information. “There's really no such thing as the cloud,” Mr. Wack told me, “there are only other people's computers.” I was not entirely surprised by his answer. He had a snappy way of coming to conclusions. In this case I said, “Oh, something like time-sharing in the old days.” This may have been true at first; but it is now worth some investigation if the present threat environment today demands a secure cloud. Even then, Jay Wack warned: “You cannot secure the network, only the data.”

The Need for Encryption

Concerns definitely were awakening in 2014. An article from Techcrunch by Ted Schlein entitled, “The Five Tough Truths of Cybersecurity,” is a vision of what we are seeing today. The imperative is to protect your data. Second-guessing the hackers is not a useful trade for most people with ordinary lives. You need to encrypt data all the way to the browser, and the browser itself has to be 100% authenticated. Companies needed to work on solving this end-to-end encryption problem, forcing hackers to face a new challenge: they can steal the data, but they would not be able to read it. Writing about the security of the cloud in PC World in 2014, Sarah Jacobsson Purewal compared, in “Loaded and Locked,” the potentially safe and secure cloud storage providers with those that were not.

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