The Edward Snowden effect: CSA CEO on U.S. cloud provider security

The Edward Snowden effect: CSA CEO on U.S. cloud provider security

Date: Jan 02, 2014

By leaking thousands of pages of classified material detailing U.S. government cyberespionage tactics, former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden has affected the perception of how secure data is if it's stored by U.S.-based cloud providers. Amid allegations that the NSA taps WAN links between cloud providers' data centers, some industry observers have questioned whether cloud data is truly secure if the cloud resides in the U.S.

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In this interview at the 2013 Cloud Security Alliance Congress, Cloud Security Alliance CEO Jim Reavis discussed the Snowden fallout and its effect on cloud provider security. While Reavis called the NSA surveillance allegations "quite concerning," he noted that companies throughout the world constantly struggle with data security.

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