Agencies that are routing e-mail through cloud-based data centers face a potential petri dish of security hazards, according to some computer specialists. But government officials say they are achieving better system integrity, and inexpensively, by using such services.
Following in the footsteps of the private sector, government agencies are outsourcing e-mail security and archiving to the cloud, or online environments managed by third-parties. Agencies pay for such services on a subscription basis rather than buying the software or hardware and maintaining it in-house.
http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20091008_4920.php?oref=topstory
“You’re mixing different people’s data in a cloudlike system. How do you prevent another organization’s data that has been trojanized — that has been poisoned — from getting into your data?”
Agencies that are routing e-mail through cloud-based data centers face a potential petri dish of security hazards, according to some computer specialists. But government officials say they are achieving better system integrity, and inexpensively, by using such services.
Following in the footsteps of the private sector, government agencies are outsourcing e-mail security and archiving to the cloud, or online environments managed by third-parties. Agencies pay for such services on a subscription basis rather than buying the software or hardware and maintaining it in-house.
http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20091008_4920.php?oref=topstory
“You’re mixing different people’s data in a cloudlike system. How do you prevent another organization’s data that has been trojanized — that has been poisoned — from getting into your data?”