It's not that we're in defence or anyhting of that kind. But these kind of questions will be the first the managers will ask here.
Personally I was hoping for something with encrypted file systems only the customers can mount. On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 5:26 AM, Ben Caradoc-Davies < [email protected]> wrote: > On 17/07/12 17:12, Jan Goyvaerts wrote: > >> Are there safe solutions to these concerns on EC2 ? Or any other >> provider for that matter. >> > > No. > > "Don’t put anything in the cloud you wouldn’t want a competitor, your > government, or another government to see." > http://www.netop.com/**solutions/report-privacy-and-** > confidentiality-in-cloud-**computing.htm<http://www.netop.com/solutions/report-privacy-and-confidentiality-in-cloud-computing.htm> > > "Companies should not underestimate the level of corporate espionage – > often backed by governments and their intelligence agencies – now taking > place across the world. That is the message of security specialists > following the revelation by Jonathan Evans, the head of the UK's > intelligence service, MI5, that one company suffered an estimated £800m > loss as a result of the theft of its intellectual property." > http://www.computing.co.uk/**ctg/news/2187123/corporate-** > espionage-an-industrial-scale-**targeting-uk<http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2187123/corporate-espionage-an-industrial-scale-targeting-uk> > > Less risky options are your own private cloud, or a cloud operated by a > provider in your own country where you have both contractual agreements to > protect confidentiality and the protection of the law. Any provider with > any services physically located in the US fails this test because the > Patriot Act allows US intelligence agencies warrantless access to your > data, and forbids your provider from telling you about it. > > Kind regards, > > -- > Ben Caradoc-Davies <[email protected]> > Software Engineer > CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering > Australian Resources Research Centre > > >
