[Info-vax] The new world that VMS will be living in

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 12/7/20 2:44 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 12/7/2020 2:35 PM, Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> On 12/7/20 2:10 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> Deutsche Bank just announced that they have signed with
>>> Google to move most of their IT To Google cloud.
>>>
>>>  From the press:
>>>
>>> <quote>
>>> The two companies on Friday finalized a cloud computing agreement 
>>> under which the German lender plans to shift most of its data onto 
>>> Google servers, technology head Bernd Leukert said in a phone interview.
>>> ...
>>> The deal will include “applications at the heart of our IT,” Leukert 
>>> said in an interview,
>>> </quote>
>>>
>>> This follow that Capital One closed down their last data center
>>> a month ago after migrating everything to Amazon cloud.
>>>
>>> VMS will need to function - and function well - in such new
>>> environments.
>>
>> Once you move your data to The Cloud it ceases to be your
>> data.
> 
> I do not see that.
> 
> It is legally still your data.

And when your customer list hits the dark web?
> 
> And assuming proper encryption is used, then you have access
> to data while the cloud provider does not have access to data.

Once you put it on someone else's machine they have possession of
that data and you are trusting them to keep it safe.  Within your
own organization one of the biggest dangers is the insider threat
(at least according to a lot of published papers lately).  But you
no longer have control over the insiders.

The Cloud  is a bad idea on more dimensions than I can even
imagine.  The only way to guarantee the safety of your IT
Systems is to keep them entirely under your control and not
trust people who have done nothing to instill that trust.

bill