Fort Knox: debunking security fears in the cloud

Would you rather save your gold in Fort Knox or thousands of local sheriff's offices across the state ?

Recently I have seen lots of articles talking about the risks of cloud computing. These tend to be the same people I see in my global corporation that constantly ask for more money, for newer and more advanced servers and software, and praying that somehow backing up everything 10 times will save the day. After eventually getting hacked they hired an expensive security consultant and made everyone change their password 3 times a day for 3 days.

This happens across thousands of businesses across the world and often the bigger you are the more vulnerable you become because it becomes a challenge to break your system.

So, how does that compare to an eco-friendly massive data center with high security and state of the art security software. It is true that you might lose a tiny amount of information if someone hacks into the public website and replaces a few pictures, but that is the maximum damage they can do.

The advantage of the cloud is the economies of scale that economists have been talking about for centuries. Why not update your hardware and software in one data center instead of thousands of companies across the world. So, back to my question, that is why we put all our valuable items in one safe place. Whether it is the gold in Fort Knox, or the most lethal top secret virus. We lock it up in one place and put lots of security around it. So, why is it any different in the cloud.