Cloud Security: Public Cloud pack who can stay away from listening?

Over the past few years, there has been a constant clash between ISPs, Internet connection providers and large online media such as Google, Yahoo and YouTube. The core of this problem is whether the ISP has the right to block or postpone connections to certain networks, certain content, or some applications, and whether the ISP has the right to charge a higher connection charge for a particular object. The current situation is that ISPs charge only for Internet connection usage, regardless of the purpose of the network connection.

But the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has just announced a compromise that allows ISPs to arbitrarily reduce the speed at which certain content is wired or to charge higher connection fees for specific content.

At first glance, we may not see how much this affects cloud computing. But further thinking will reveal that the convenience of the cloud is closely related to the speed of network access. In fact, the main ISPs in the market are dominated by telecoms firms, whose data centers are millions of square feet and are actively trying to launch their own cloud computing products.

So it's not hard to imagine a situation that could happen one day, that is, you have free access to your online provider's own cloud services, but you may have to pay a higher network connection fee if you want to use cloud services that are larger, more functional, more efficient, or more attractive in price. Or, to be more dramatic, your telecoms firm may even charge you with a "salesforce.com" or "Amazon EC2 royalty".

My friend Ryan Bagnulo, who currently serves as Joyent's chief of information security, said on Twitter: "Not all packages are born equal, and the free service package is a priority sacrifice, the reality of the public cloud world." ”

Even worse, the public cloud gives ISPs the opportunity to monitor what your employees do on the web, because they can view your network packets. I'm sure many ISPs have done this before, as a technology VP for deep Seal-checking vendors, and in the past, there was room for controversy in some places. But not now. Also, the first step is to secure SSL for network traffic and to prevent some of these monitoring techniques.

As a result, today's businesses need to encrypt all the network traffic sent to the cloud more than ever before. It is clear that cloud communication and the security of the cloud is the first issue of this year.