Simply stated, you can’t trust the employees of cloud service providers. Frankly, I don’t think we can really trust our own employees anymore either, but at least our capability to monitor them is far greater. Early on we had warnings of the problem of just anyone having access to secure data when Google Engineers got caught stalking Google customers through their access. Their getting caught and our finding out about it was pretty remote. I’ve seen, over the years, crimes ranging from theft to sabotage that result in the employee’s termination when caught, but never result in any external report.

We currently exist in a world where nation states like China and Russia are aggressively probing data repositories and these cyber spy organizations aren’t particularly secure either, suggesting where the states go criminals will follow. The easiest way in remains getting access to an employee’s credentials or getting the employee to pull the information like Snowden did.

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Browsing Privacy: (CSO Online) – Why you shouldn’t trust cloud service providers

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