The Cloud is Safe Pract The Facts

Backround: The recent hacking of the Cloud poses many issues with respect to Internet security. Just recently a hacker infiltrated the Cloud system and stole very sensitive photographs of celebrities and distributed them over the Internet. See cbsnews.com/news/jennifer- lawrence-mary-elizabeth-winstead-hacked-how-safe- are-your-cloud-photos-and-data/. So to Pract the fact, is this a matter of Cloud security, or is this matter of personal discretion by the users….should you be more careful with what you put on the Internet?cbsnews.com/news/jennifer- lawrence-mary-elizabeth-winstead-hacked-how-safe- are-your-cloud-photos-and-data/ Pract The Facts

Lesson Objectives: 1.Why the Cloud is Safe. 2.Methods used to keep the cloud safe. Pract The Facts

The cloud offers better security than you can provide yourself. When using the cloud you don’t have to worry about hard drive failures, scams, and/or virus damaging your files. Pract The Facts

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There are different view points on safety and the cloud. 1.Services on the cloud are not any less safe than in house servers. (or your own computer.) 2. The cloud is not the problem. It was the information from an individuals account that was stolen. Pract The Facts

According to James Gordon, the chief information officer at Needham Bank in Massachusetts user due dillegence is the key! "I believe the cloud can be safe, but users of the cloud must know their data and how it's protected and stored both at rest and in transit,” Pract The Facts

Large companies that manage cloud facilities are better able to protect themselves from threats to the data. They are also better at maintaining the hardware used to store the information. Pract The Facts

How do they keep the data safe? Pract The Facts

Where is the cloud? This video can give you and idea Of where your data may be stored and how secure the facility is. Pract The Facts click to see the video

Hiring people to hack into their data centers. Many companies out there such as Google hold contest or hire contractors to To try and hack their sites. Buy doing this they can discover security issues and fix them Before someone else can use the bugs to cause damage. Companies that do this: Google paid 3.3 million in reward money for their site. Facebook paid $2204 per bug from contractors for their site. Microsoft paid 100 million dollars in rewards for their site. Mozilla (Firefox) paid 1.5 million dollars in reward money for their site. Pract The Facts

Microsoft protects its Cloud system using the following methods: 1.No one person has access to your data in a cloud facility (on location). Only maintenance can enter the center but they cannot access the data. 2.There are controls in the servers so unknown programs are not allowed to run on servers. 3.The company is always testing the system for weak spots and fixing them. Pract The Facts

In summary we have learned: 1.Why the cloud is safe. 2.Methods used to keep the cloud safe. Pract The Facts