Cloud computing

Yikes, I have just heard from NPR the US's National Public Radio news interviewing this IT security expert who has done a lot of security work with the US gov't; he has said that cloud computing can be used for the new the big O office in Washington. What? Are you insane? The safest network is NOT connecting to the cloud! The cloud computing is a new technology that is based on the Internet. You store all your information there such as your Word document, Excel spreadsheet, email and other files. A prime example is Google's web-based applications. NO. This cannot be. I hear Microsoft is actively pushing now.

Do you know over 25% of the active "visits" by outsiders is not being investigated? Simply because it was low level and the information is considered non-essential. Also, different groups of geeks or scientists like to "compose" their own little network with protocol not able to withstand any "tapping". There was an instance 8 or 9 years ago that someone got in and got out leaving no trace because of this "composed" networks.

If cloud computing is used, there is no way to know if the files have been copied, extracted or "touched"; granted you can safe-guard the invasion but ... And the current IP protocol has lots of holes as well as the DNS protocol. What if it get bombarded by network swamp? There goes your cloud computing and the entire big O office and beyond are crippled. That would not be a good thing!

BTW, good security experts that do work for big companies do NOT announce themselves publicly. That's the first step of being a security expert!