A short presentation on Information Security and Cloud Computing, prepared for an event of the UK's Society of Archivists.
The slides were intended to shape the issues ahead of a longer discussion session.
Varsha Sewlal- Cyber Attacks on Critical Critical Infrastructure
Information Security and Cloud Computing
1. Information Security &
Cloud Computing
Dr Paul Miller
The Cloud of Data
paul.miller@cloudofdata.com
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2. Topics
Cloud Stack redux
Some (quick!) ‘truths’ about the Cloud
Information Security?
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3. ‘The Cloud’ lumps different
concepts/capabilities together
The Cloud Stack
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4. “convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of
configurable computing resources...”
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5. Traditional 3 layer model - there are plenty of others!
all ‘Cloud’… but DIFFERENT!
Software/Application [as a Service]
(SaaS)
Platform [as a Service]
(PaaS)
Infrastructure [as a Service]
(IaaS)
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6. outsource raw infrastructure - avoid
significant CapEx
scale to meet demand - Eli Lilly, payroll
SaaS private/ hybrid
public/
PaaS
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
computers (Amazon EC2, Rackspace, GoGrid...)
storage (Amazon S3, MobileMe, Google Drive...)
Elasticity (Rightscale…)
Bandwidth (Limelight, Amazon CloudFront…)
Electricity
Cooling
etc.
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7. ‘does heavy lifting’
concentrate on your app’s USP
least developed but most potential?
SaaS
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Salesforce force.com
Apprenda SaaSGrid
Google App Engine
Microsoft Azure
Appistry
Talis Platform
IaaS
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8. light weight applications, delivered over Web
mostly low-end disruptors for now...
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Google Apps, Zoho
Acrobat.com, iWork.com
Kashflow, FreeAgent
WordPress.com
MobileMe
Salesforce.com
PaaS
IaaS
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9. Some more true than others!
Some ‘Truths’ about the Cloud
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10. Microsoft Data Centre, Dublin Cisco, VMware et al pushing
on-premise
G-Cloud, here and in USA...
It’s All Off-Premise
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11. For elastic or periodic jobs.
Less clear-cut for ‘normal’ load
It’s Cheap
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12. Probably… but Simon Wardley
It’s Green
http://tr.im/greenclouds
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13. Numbers don’t add up...
It’s Not Reliable
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14. And your data centre ?
It’s Not Secure
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15. PATRIOT Act and data territoriality are real… but manageable
USA will read my data
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16. And Rackspace,
and Microsoft,
and Sun, and HP,
It’s Amazon and Google, and...
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17. Amazon Rackspace Joyent GoGrid OpSource FlexiScale
3,000
Guy Rosen has
begun tracking
trends, using
QuantCast’s top
2,250
500,000 sites
1,500
750
0
July September November January March May
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18. With thanks to Simon Wardley
“It’s like computers on the
Internet, innit?”
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19. What are you securing…
and Why?
5 broad areas...
Security
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26. it can be!
what matters?
security costs time, money and effort
identify appropriate levels of security…
always remember that people will be people.
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27. cloud of data
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