{"id":8696,"date":"2013-08-08T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-08T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2753479"},"modified":"2013-08-08T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-08T11:00:00","slug":"securing-cloud-data-from-cybercrime-intrusion-and-surveillance-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/securing-cloud-data-from-cybercrime-intrusion-and-surveillance-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Securing Cloud Data from Cybercrime, Intrusion and Surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my previous post  (Cloud Data, Security, Privacy &#038; Confidentiality\/ The ISV Perspective) I talked about the increasing exposure of data, the changing landscape of data confidentiality and the need to shield data rather than retreat into \u2013 largely mythical  -\u201csafe heavens\u201d of on premise.  When storing data in the cloud, key management becomes a critical aspect of data confidentiality and a new crop of vendors are beginning to emerge simplifying encryption and key management.<br \/>\nHaving looked at most of the new crop of cloud encryption vendors, we liked Porticor for its innovative application of homomorphic algorithm to split key encryption and its use of a customer-owned security appliance.   The combination of two eliminates the need to expose the encryption key and minimizes the risks offering a unique approach to comply with EU data protection legislation, not found elsewhere in the cloud.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2753479\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my previous post  (Cloud Data, Security, Privacy &amp; Confidentiality\/ The ISV Perspective) I talked about the increasing exposure of data, the changing landscape of data confidentiality and the need to shield data rather than retreat into &ndash; largely mythical  -&ldquo;safe heavens&rdquo; of on premise.  When storing data in the cloud, key management becomes a critical aspect of data confidentiality and a new crop of vendors are beginning to emerge simplifying encryption and key management.<br \/>\nHaving looked at most of the new crop of cloud encryption vendors, we liked Porticor for its innovative application of homomorphic algorithm to split key encryption and its use of a customer-owned security appliance.   The combination of two eliminates the need to expose the encryption key and minimizes the risks offering a unique approach to comply with EU data protection legislation, not found elsewhere in the cloud.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2753479\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}