Rackspace is leading an effort to create a new group of top-tier cloud companies that it hopes will share information about security in close to real time.
Rackspace chief security officer Brian Kelly today told The Reg at a Sydney event that he feels cloud companies have to take a lead to address security challenges. Rackspace, he said, operates a skunkworks in which it is considering approaches such as asking CPU-makers to add security functions to silicon in order to make dedicated security appliances less relevant. That effort, he said, has seen Rackspace hire two of three leaders of the US military's online operations squads because Rackspace wants that kind of expertise and experience on staff.
Another approach Kelly feels is necessary is for cloud leaders to come together to share information, so that when one detects an attack or a threat, the others are quickly made aware of it. All, it is hoped, will therefore be better positioned to combat emerging threats.
Kelly said Rackspace has developed a platform to monitor its own systems for attacks or emerging threats, and provide information on them at speed. The company hopes the new group will be willing to both consume that feed and contribute to it. Intel, Dropbox, Google, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services are either on the target list or have already entered discussions about the group.
It's hoped the group will launch later this year.
(Score: 2) by Gravis on Tuesday August 04 2015, @12:00AM
if there is one thing i don't trust, it's "trusted computing" because it's designed for corporate abuse. [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday August 04 2015, @12:16AM
The Fine Manual [osxbook.com].
FTFY
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(Score: 2) by Gravis on Tuesday August 04 2015, @03:08AM
it's a flawed concept because the module has to be trusted by the user. [wikipedia.org] it would be rather easy for a government to force some tweaks be made to make RNG not so random. there isn't even a open hardware version of the TPM. there is no reason to trust the module.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday August 11 2015, @02:00AM
Point a video camera out your window on a moderately cloudy day, hash the pixels down into a key.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 2) by Gravis on Wednesday August 12 2015, @12:01AM
if i have to build my own hardware, it's not a feature worth having.