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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.
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Dr Paul Miller
The Cloud of Data
Information Security & Cloud Computing
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Cloud Stack redux
Some (quick!) ‘truths’ about the Cloud
Information Security?
Topics
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The Cloud Stack‘The Cloud’ lumps different concepts/capabilities together
www.flickr.com/photos/wonderlane/3089163372/
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“convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources...”
csrc.nist.gov/groups/SNS/cloud-computing/
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Software/Application [as a Service](SaaS)
Platform [as a Service](PaaS)
Infrastructure [as a Service](IaaS)
Traditional 3 layer model - there are plenty of others!all ‘Cloud’… but DIFFERENT!
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SaaS
PaaS
Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
computers (Amazon EC2, Rackspace, GoGrid...)storage (Amazon S3, MobileMe, Google Drive...)
Elasticity (Rightscale…)Bandwidth (Limelight, Amazon CloudFront…)
ElectricityCooling
etc.
outsource raw infrastructure - avoid significant CapExscale to meet demand - Eli Lilly, payrollpublic/ private/ hybrid
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SaaS
Platform as a Service (PaaS)
Salesforce force.comApprenda SaaSGridGoogle App Engine
Microsoft AzureAppistry
Talis Platform
IaaS
‘does heavy lifting’concentrate on your app’s USP
least developed but most potential?
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Software as a Service (SaaS)
Google Apps, ZohoAcrobat.com, iWork.com
Kashflow, FreeAgentWordPress.com
MobileMeSalesforce.com
PaaS
IaaS
lightweight applications, delivered over Webmostly low-end disruptors for now...
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Some ‘Truths’ about the Cloud
Some more true than others!
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It’s All Off-Premise
Microsoft Data Centre, Dublin Cisco, VMware et al pushing on-premise
G-Cloud, here and in USA...
www.datacenterknowledge.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/aerial-1000.jpg
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It’s Cheap
www.flickr.com/photos/esdrascalderan/357434020/
For elastic or periodic jobs.Less clear-cut for ‘normal’ load
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It’s Green
www.flickr.com/photos/venteco/2851026377/
Probably… but Simon Wardley
http://tr.im/greenclouds
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It’s Not Reliable
www.flickr.com/photos/raver_mikey/2300514593/
Numbers don’t add up...
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It’s Not Secure
www.flickr.com/photos/8323834@N07/500995147/
And your data centre ?
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USA will read my data
www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/3484013571/
PATRIOT Act and data territoriality are real… but manageable
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It’s Amazon
www.flickr.com/photos/lucasartoni/2967023166/
And Rackspace, and Microsoft, and Sun, and HP, and Google, and...
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0
750
1,500
2,250
3,000
July September November January March May
Amazon Rackspace Joyent GoGrid OpSource FlexiScale
www.jackofallclouds.com/2010/05/state-of-the-cloud-may-2010/
Guy Rosen has begun tracking trends, using QuantCast’s top 500,000 sites
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“It’s like computers on the Internet, innit?”
With thanks to Simon Wardley
www.flickr.com/photos/fimbrethil/2642775023/
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Security
What are you securing…and Why?
5 broad areas...
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Secure Physical Infrastructurewww.flickr.com/photos/treborrenrut/4481585336/
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Secure the Network
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Secure Applications
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Secure Data
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Secure People
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Conclusion
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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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Dr Paul Miller
The Cloud of Data
skype: cloudofdata
phone: +44 7769 740083
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