Cloud Computing

Computer security and privacy

Use a cloud service to store personal or sensitive data, expose you to potential problems of invasion of privacy. Personal data are stored in Server Farms of companies that often reside in a state other than the user. The cloud providers, in the event of misconduct or malicious, could gain access to personal information to perform market research and user profiling.

With wireless connections, the security risk increases and is more exposed to cases of piracy due to less security offered by wireless networks. In the presence of illegal acts, such as embezzlement or illegal personal data, the damage could be very serious for the user, with the difficulty of achieving legal solutions and / or refunds if the supplier resides in a state other than your country.

In the case of industries or companies, all data stored in external memory are seriously exposed to possible cases of industrial espionage.

Problems of international economic and political

They can occur when public data is collected and stored in private archives, located in a country other than those of users of the “cloud”. for free access future.

Other issues are related to the location of the archives of the “cloud” in some rich countries. If not regulated by specific international standards that could.

Increase the “digital divide” between rich and poor (if access to knowledge stored will not be freely granted to all).

More security and guarantees are there in case the service provider is from the same country / area by applying the same laws / regulations on the privacy and security of the customer (the US legislation or other nations is much other than Italian and becomes impossible to think meet national standards in cloud services with other nations).

Continuity of service:

Delegating to an external service management of the data and their processing the user is severely limited in the case where the aforementioned services are not operational (out of service). A possible malfunction also affects a very large number of people simultaneously since these are shared services. Although the best cloud computing services using redundant architectures and qualified personnel in order to prevent malfunction of the system and reduce the likelihood of failures seen by the end user, they do not eliminate the problem entirely. Also, we consider that everything is based on the ability to have an Internet connection at high speed in both download and upload and that even in the case of a connection interruption due to your Internet Service Provider / ISP has the complete paralysis of activities.

Difficulty of migration data in the event of a possible change of the manager of cloud services:

As there is a standard defined between the operators of services, a possible change of operator is extremely complex. This finding could be extremely harmful in the event of bankruptcy of the service provider which you have entrusted