Cloud storage personal privacy theft Security standard absence of mishap

With the outflow of 101 Hollywood actress photos, Apple mobile phone icloud cloud system has been criticized, pornographic door incident reflects the cloud storage area facing security problems. According to Enfodesk, "March 2014 China Personal Cloud storage Market Users (Web page)" data show that the number of domestic personal cloud storage users (Web version) has more than 351 million people. Cloud storage has gone through the era of capacity comparisons, user experience, and scale applications, and security issues are now in sight, so how to ensure that privacy is not compromised as a key to cloud storage operations at a time when cloud storage applications are exploding.

Cloud storage caught in a security storm

"Cloud" means storing data on a large shared server. Through the cloud storage service, users can deposit or read photos, videos, text, and other files in the cloud on any internet connection, via personal computers, smartphones, and other terminals. Because of its unlimited space and the advantages of multiple platform access, it is increasingly favored by individuals and business users. In recent years, major Internet service providers and mobile device manufacturers have launched cloud storage services to enhance user stickiness, the following is the user information security faced with new challenges, major sensitive information leakage incidents occur, recently the United States, a number of female stars stored in the icloud of a large number of "pornographic" was exposed, again causing group anxiety. There is news that if Apple users open the "icloud photo streaming" feature, the photos will be automatically uploaded to the cloud server, once the server has been conquered, or the user's phone account password leakage, then the phone photos are exposed.

In fact, in addition to Apple icloud, Millet mobile phone cloud albums, 360 Cloud disk, QQ space, friends and almost all real-time chat tools, the principle of its networked storage and icloud similar, that is, stored in the cloud server. Industry insiders said that if these servers were overcome or user password leakage, can lead to information disclosure.

The high capacity and low-cost "convenience" model of cloud storage makes people more and more dependent on it. The convenience of the large data age has anesthetized people's safety nerves. The lack of significant privacy leaks has surfaced, allowing people to imagine the cloud as an absolute safe environment. Today, "Hollywood pornographic" incident uncovered Apple icloud Cloud is not safe, but also reflects the entire cloud storage area of security risks.

Fierce competition in the cloud storage market

With the popularization of information technology applications, whether the enterprise or individual every day to produce a large number of data, accumulated after a huge amount of data, the large number of data has exceeded the computer hard disk and CD-ROM can be convenient storage limit, when the cloud storage concept once proposed, accompanied by cloud services related vocabulary media exposure, Attached to the cloud storage Technology Network disk market has become the road manufacturers scramble to seize the "sweet cakes."

Data show that cloud storage is an emerging information storage solution that allows users to transfer photos and videos to a disk, anytime, anywhere, from a mobile terminal, such as a smartphone or tablet, to a network, and can be easily retrieved by a page or computer client in other places where there is a network. In the current domestic market, the vast majority of the network is still targeted at the individual user market. According to industry insiders said that participation in the war is more well-known domestic enterprises Baidu Cloud, Sina Micro-disk, Huawei Network disk, Jinshan fast, 115 network disk and 360 cloud disk, etc., foreign companies produced by Microsoft SkyDrive, Apple icloud, recently Amazon has just been online a called " Clouddriver "Network disk products.

In this respect, some experts predict that in the next five years will be 70% of the Internet users use personal cloud, so the major enterprises and manufacturers began to increase the market investment in the network is also reasonable. At present, the Giants are still only accumulating a larger user technology, for the future to attract value-added applications and customer advertising for early preparation.

Safety short board needs to be solved urgently

From the operation mode of cloud storage, the data uploaded by users can not be stored in ciphertext, and for unencrypted files, the administrator can view and delete them directly from the server platform. In the event of a violation of professional ethics by an administrator, there may be serious consequences. In addition, if the user's mobile terminal or client username and password are compromised or illegally stolen, the user's privacy data security on the server will be difficult to guarantee. This means that the more information users upload to the cloud, the more personal privacy, the greater the risk of information security.

In fact, the cloud storage industry has developed rapidly, but there is no unified industry regulatory standards on personal privacy protection, and more attention is being paid to occupy the market and build laboratories.

Driven by commercial interests, cloud storage vendors resource sharing and product promotion, but neglected the most basic security issues, and then a good security and user experience, if not to protect the security of user privacy, the user's sense of the product will be greatly compromised. For the vast majority of users, they do not want their own cloud storage into a public resource platform, but also do not want their privacy to become the public news, so the cloud storage providers to spare no effort to do their own product security to do a good job. For users, in the use of the network disk upload data, you should also consider the comprehensive strength of the service provider, if necessary, software dual protection, if it is very important or top-secret files, can not rely entirely on the cloud to backup, so as to avoid data loss after the service provider stopped operation.

Despite the serious problem of cloud storage security, experts are optimistic about the future of cloud storage, and users ' concerns about the security of cloud storage will be gradually dispelled as technology progresses. With the advent of the multi-screen era, all electronic products are likely to become the end of the cloud, personal cloud services will break this limitation, truly achieve the content between different devices access and sharing.