Laws have not yet caught up with the new Cloud world we live in, and so related data privacy vulnerabilities are hindering best practice adoption. Modernizing these and marrying them with key privacy technologies will open the floodgates for an economy-boosting tech boom that will dwarf the dot com craze.
The Open Identity framework provides a single, globally consistent approach to personal identity information on the Internet, and as such provides a platform for an equally unified legal framework too for the associated Privacy laws, engendering a system for “Cloud Rights Management”.
Cloud Rights Management
Concerns over how data is more vulnerable in the remote data-centres of Cloud providers has been the core thorny issue that holds up its massive-scale adoption, because the simple formula of whether its behind the corporate firewall or not is typically used as the blunt instrument for assuring information protection and compliance.
However the irony is that actually Cloud providers will become considerably more secure. The industry will experience a “race to the top” effect where technology innovation and excellence, and associated levels of business investment, will drive an environment that applies the most advanced IT and policies to achieve the highest standards of information protection.
A firewall is a systems-level protection, against hackers, malware and viruses et al, not a policy-level tool. It can’t regulate access to documents based on the readers role within a certain organization for example, this is ‘Rights Management’. Critically the firewall can also be overly protective, inhibiting legitimate collaboration between staff and their organizational partners due to the VPN access to applications like MS Sharepoint methods being only for direct employees.
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Source: sys-con.com
By: Cloud Ventures
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