Cross-border cloud: Global Cloud privacy and security best practices

The issue of deployment and management of Cross-border clouds was particularly striking in the Snowden incident, which revealed the large amount of government oversight achieved through the PRISM program, and some paranoid thought that any data hosted in the cloud would increase the risk of this type of snooping.

However, are their ideas correct? If so, what are some of the best practices to ensure enterprise data security in the context of the current Cross-border cloud? While the world is still in the early stages of cloud governance, it is clear that cloud providers and security technologies will play an important role in this evolution.

Information Privacy and cloud

Given such events, IT pros and businesses must determine whether these privacy concerns are unique to the cloud, especially if hosted in the United States. The fear of this risk has unilaterally driven markets outside the US, leading to a ripple effect on the US cloud-hosting industry.

Canada, and other similar countries, see this as an opportunity to make it a "Swiss cloud" by providing safe havens for customers worried about government surveillance. But can it be true in Canada, or can it be achieved in other countries?

Not。

According to the Toronto Star, Canada's traffic flows through the United States anyway, thanks to the telecommunications network architecture in North America. It is thus subject to eavesdropping, regardless of how long it takes the company to transfer data to the cloud or use cloud applications.

Similarly, if you feel you are not in North America, so data privacy is not compromised, think of your own government. Canada, for example, has its own oversight issues. This is true of any country.

The role of cloud service providers in cloud privacy

So what we can do is overhaul and use a lot of different techniques to cover personal privacy issues, not just cloud computing. As we look at business issues, everything is becoming more and more focused on suppliers and technology. These concerns are gradually becoming a problem for providers to address through service level agreement terms and Commodities.

As the British Guardian notes, Microsoft is working with the National Security Agency to provide safe access to e-mail and the recent uproar over Google's privacy benefits.

All of this boils down to the most critical issue, like the term protecting our privacy, we need to sign with the cloud provider, and know how they do it, and the legal mechanism that requires these actions, and ultimately we allow the government to do this level of eavesdropping.