Expect this headline very soon: “Public cloud used to hack government systems.” I’m sure aspects of this are happening right now, and I’m sure we will see more widespread use of public clouds as the platforms for hackery.
What should we do with the public clouds used as hacking venues? Do we seize the physical servers? Shut down the offending data center? All of the above? And if criminals use the same cloud infrastructure as enterprises, how do enterprises know that their data won’t get seized along with the bad guys’ data?
Recent developments are not reassuring. Last month, the FBI seized a private cloud server. And we still remember the NSA’s digital spying revelations.
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