\'Cloud\' brings many advantages. Among others, that much of your social media data will disappear ever more quickly -- as all the storage in the world cannot keep up with the growth of Big Data, hence ever more will be lost. For companies, that may be a problem...

1. Much Data
Dispersing into the Cloud
Jurgen van der Vlugt
SecureAmsterdam at Cisco, Sept 11 2012

2. Introduction
• Jurgen = Ir.drs. J. van der Vlugt RE CISA CRISC
• Maverisk Consultancy, IS Audit and Advisory services
• (IS) Audit, (Info)Security, BCM, ERM/ORM
• 17 years at KPMG, ABN AMRO Bank, Noordbeek, Achmea, ABN AMRO
• ISSA, NOREA: Various prof development/practices committees

3. The big picture
Processing → … managing this …!? → √
Much Data, perfected?
‘Cloud’ Storage Much Data vs. storage
Data Quality / Info Quality
Networking → √
(Thanks, )

4. Much Data
• Zetta, yotta, kibi, mebi, gibi, tebi, pebi, exbi, pebi, yobi
• Social Media → Who owns that data / privacy
• Company data → Do you know
• What is yours,
• Where it is,
• What the value is, etc
• No you don’t.
[See Eric Nieuwland’s pres earlier]

5. Hegel and Derrida aside
• Hegel: Reason will completely merge with the Universe
• Derrida: Fuggeddaboudit. The material representation of language
is unattached to Meaning (which is individual)
• Conclusion: We will get lost
• Corrolary: We will need I-T to help us
• Which leads to / is Singularity
• Infeasibility to the rescue (?): Infinite meta-loop
• Kyoto School: The river doesn’t make any noise
→ Data is needed to have information

6. Storage, anyone ..?

7. Storage limits
• Impossible to keep up; gap widening
• Hoping for production crash
• ‘Storage’ vs. ephemeral data
• Facebook (doesn’t) knows
what you did twenty summers ago
• Phew! Reputation restauration possible (?)
• Trust through reputation !?
• When cloud providers run out of secondary provisioning

8. Data quality. IQ …?
Every step
up will be Wisdom
harder to Insight
‘control’
Intelligence
Knowledge
The more data, the less Info Info
Debatable whether
we have any clue
about how to do
those things
Much Data

9. More data less control

10. Into the Cloud
• Dump it there
• Fogging up
• The location
• The existence
• The blame
(ownership / actions)
• Same: ‘Outsourcing’

11. So,
Some data is somewhere out there
• Privacy
• Social Media; production and privacy
• Value (Data/Information/ …)
• MIS Is A Mirage ( J. Dearden, HBR 1972 ..!)
• A manager with a tool, is still a …
• Nevertheless: Just do it™

12. Summarising the big picture
Processing → … managing this …!? → √
Much Data, perfected?
‘Cloud’ Storage Much Data vs. storage
Data Quality / Info Quality
Networking → √
(Thanks, )
Confidentiality → Least of your problems (?)
Integrity → Lack of controls…
Availability → Dream of Nightmare

13. CIA / CYA
Confidentiality:
• Know your data (which, where)
• Protect ‘your’ data (privacy; data-bound crypto)
Integrity:
• Know your data (architecture, various levels)
• Control integrity (various levels)
Availability:
• Transparent → transitive! Arrangements
• Double, triple, … availability (storage req’s ..?)

14. Conclusion:
It can be done …
… but through complexity,
difficulty will grow
… and we don’t have enough clue yet
√

15. That’s it for me
√

17. Thank you