Hugh Smith wrote:
> Remember my post on Cloud Computing and its risks.  Well I just read
> my Processor magazine and they are talking about Virtual Threats. 
> That is threats to Virtual Servers.  So only now do all the risks
> appear. And this is a platform that has been out there about a year.
>
> Guess what, personnel are still the risk. Staff, computer repair guys,
> new equipment installers and "virtually" anyone who comes in contact
> with the computers is a threat.(See that is a pun.  Pretty good!)
>
> Many failures relate to policy issues.  (Sounds like a opening for
> someone good at procedures and policies and management.  Ding, Ding
> Ding Records Managers)
>
> Imagine the threats to Cloud Computing because you don't even know
> where it is, you cannot enforce any policies and if your vendor goes
> out of business you are virtually ruined.  (I can't stop myself.)
>

yeah, right- like you couldn't read your microfiche if your camera
manufacturer went out of business.
> If someone can explain how we let ourselves become so dependent on
> Computer designers that have no ability to create a sustainable
> platform and create a safe system that cannot be hacked into by high
> school kids with time on their hands.
get a grip- these VMs are servers living under the host environment.
Mostly they need to be patched and maintained like any other server
installation.
it's called 'tradeoff' - you can spend unlimited time trying to build a
perfect system.

Are you still driving one of those primitive cars that require a live
driver, that can be crashed?

Why don't you wait for the ones that can't crash?
Could your house possibly be broken into?
Why?
The technology exists to make it much safer.

> I think we are at Pandora's box time.  We have created a platform that
> is so insecure that none of us are safe.  Our credit cards are at
> risk, our banks accounts are at risk and in this economy spending on
> security is going to be virtually non-existent.

ahhhh - the sky is falling!!!

it's called 'life'.
and 'opportunity'.

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Jay Maechtlen
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