There has been a lot of recent hype over cloud-based information storage since Apple’s World Wide Developer’s Conference announcement of its newest virtual data transfer service, iCloud.
The iCloud service will allow all devices owned by a single user to automatically sync to their libraries stored on Apple’s servers wirelessly through the internet.
This means that the entirety of your collective data will all be accessible to your iPod, iPhone, iPad, and even your Mac from Apple’s single virtual “cloud” of information.
This poses an inherent dilemma.
The more information that is stored at a single collective point, even one that manifests itself in virtual cyberspace, the bigger the target that it will appear for hackers. Most cloud services operate in this fashion, likely because it is easy and provides smoother and faster delivery.
Many are questioning the security and safety of cloud networks, especially in the face of recent cyber-attacks on Sony Group and its many operating segments.
Joel Achramowicz, Vice President of technology research at Blaylock Robert Van LLC told CNBC yesterday “There is a systemic awareness of the vulnerability of the cloud,” “and what we have to do is, concerning the Sony issues recently, learn from these experiences and continue to work at bulletproofing the cloud.”
Cloud services have a history with breaches and failures in security. In March, the service of email marketing company Epsilon was breached and client email addresses, belonging to a large number of affected companies, were stolen.
In December of last year, Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite was breached and Offline Address Book data was taken from many customers.
According to an article from Dark Reading, a cyber-security website, close to half of all Cloud services clients have had their data breached within the past year and security issues with Apple and its software have been increasing rapidly over the last several years.
As shown by Amazon.com’s Cloud service, EC2, hackers can also use the Cloud to attack other services. Several of the attacks made against Sony have been staged from rented Amazon Cloud servers that sell for as cheap as 3 cents an hour.
While cloud technology appears to have taken a step forward with the unveiling of Apple’s iCloud, the technology as whole continues to see security issues in a market of customers who are more hesitant in a data sensitive world.
The iCloud service will allow all devices owned by a single user to automatically sync to their libraries stored on Apple’s servers wirelessly through the internet.
This means that the entirety of your collective data will all be accessible to your iPod, iPhone, iPad, and even your Mac from Apple’s single virtual “cloud” of information.
This poses an inherent dilemma.
The more information that is stored at a single collective point, even one that manifests itself in virtual cyberspace, the bigger the target that it will appear for hackers. Most cloud services operate in this fashion, likely because it is easy and provides smoother and faster delivery.
Many are questioning the security and safety of cloud networks, especially in the face of recent cyber-attacks on Sony Group and its many operating segments.
Joel Achramowicz, Vice President of technology research at Blaylock Robert Van LLC told CNBC yesterday “There is a systemic awareness of the vulnerability of the cloud,” “and what we have to do is, concerning the Sony issues recently, learn from these experiences and continue to work at bulletproofing the cloud.”
Cloud services have a history with breaches and failures in security. In March, the service of email marketing company Epsilon was breached and client email addresses, belonging to a large number of affected companies, were stolen.
In December of last year, Microsoft’s Business Productivity Online Suite was breached and Offline Address Book data was taken from many customers.
According to an article from Dark Reading, a cyber-security website, close to half of all Cloud services clients have had their data breached within the past year and security issues with Apple and its software have been increasing rapidly over the last several years.
As shown by Amazon.com’s Cloud service, EC2, hackers can also use the Cloud to attack other services. Several of the attacks made against Sony have been staged from rented Amazon Cloud servers that sell for as cheap as 3 cents an hour.
While cloud technology appears to have taken a step forward with the unveiling of Apple’s iCloud, the technology as whole continues to see security issues in a market of customers who are more hesitant in a data sensitive world.
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