Real Cloud Security

27 de November de 2012 Por

(Please note this post was originally published in the Spanish version of Security Art Work last 2nd Oct 2012)

Act I: The cloud

(In a small room we find the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), the Chief Security Officer (CSO) and the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). The latter comes with a PC World magazine under his arm)

CMO: Blablablabla Cloud blablabla costs blablabla availability blablablabla Google.
CSO: Blablabla SLA blablabla, blablabla privacy, blablabla blablabla outsourcing, blablabla.
CEO: Blablablabla dollars, blablabla staff, IT blablabla servers. ¿Security? Blablablabla.
CSO: Blablabla, blablabla SOX, penalties, blablabla data theft blablabla, blablabla press. Blablabla impact and risk.
CMO: Insecure? Hahahaha, blablabla, blablabla and blablabla. CSO blablabla, distrust. Blabla, blabla, Gartner, blablabla?? Blablablabla. That does not happen.
CEO: blablablabla CIO, blablabla blablabla IT budget.
CSO: Alea jacta est.

Act II: Hunky-dory

(While the Chief Executive Officer looks at the Chief Marketing Officer tablet, they see the Chief Security Officer, who quickens the pace but is intercepted in the aisle)

CMO: Blablabla access, blablabla iPad, iPhone. Blablabla? CSO? Blablabla, this security guys blablabla. Access, blablabla, password blablabla, blablabla SSL.
CEO: Blablabla friendly, blabla, blablabla success. Blablablabla reason blabla costs, blablabla enterprise 2.0.
CSO: Pater Noster qui es in caelis, sanctificétur nomen Tuum…

Act III: A small problem

(There is a problem in the Marshall Islands that has disabled the connection to the cloud provider, and althought it is not known yet, may have caused data loss)

CEO: Blablabla connection, blabla deletion, blablabla access. Blablablabla data, blablabla cloud!!
CMO: Blablablabla probability blabla blablablabla Gartner CIO, blabla CSO .
CSO: Blablabla risk, blablabla impact, blabla quality of service, blablabla Google.
CEO: Blablabla reputation, blablabla bussiness, blablabla Google!
CMO: …
CSO: …

Act IV: Choose Your Own Adventure

(Do you remember these books? ;)

Option #1

CSO: Blablabla backup, blabla fireproof, blablablabla recovery blablabla system.
CEO: Muacs.

Option #2

10 CEO: …
20 CMO: …
30 CSO: …
goto 10

Option #3

CSO: Blablablabla ¿CIO?
CIO: Blablabla, Terms of Service, blablablabla complaint, blablabla compensation, blablablabla.
CEO: Blablabla data, blablabla available blablabla #@!*& blablabla ten dollars.

Well, how did finished the adventure in the cloud?

If you’ve been able to continue this conversation, you might like this video that our colleague Adrian has found: