http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/security/231901327 By J. Nicholas Hoover InformationWeek October 20, 2011 Cloud computing will make the intelligence community more secure and efficient, NSA director and U.S. Cyber Command commander Gen. Keith Alexander said Thursday. In a speech in Baltimore before security professionals and a subsequent interview with InformationWeek and other media, Alexander touted the cloud as a key part of the intelligence community's IT strategy. He said that cloud computing--his remarks indicated that he was largely speaking about private cloud computing--will help deliver better information to soldiers and intelligence professionals where and when they needed it, cut costs, and at the same time provide the NSA and Department of Defense with better insights into its networks, since consolidation is one prerequisite of a robust cloud strategy. "When you think about the cloud, look at what Google, Amazon are doing with the technology," he said. "It's absolutely superb. We need to go from our legacy databases to the cloud." Security, Alexander acknowledged, is a key concern in the cloud, but he said that the cloud also brings advantages in terms of what he termed "collapsing the enclave." Today, he said, the military and Cyber Command often have too little insight into what is going on in isolated and segmented military and intelligence networks to understand if they are in fact secure. A broader cloud infrastructure, he added, would both enable his organizations to get a better end-to-end view of their networks and be able to put security measures and virtual segments in place to maintain security. [...] _____________________________________________________ Subscribe to InfoSec News - www.infosecnews.org http://www.infosecnews.org/mailman/listinfo/isnReceived on Fri Oct 21 2011 - 00:25:48 PDT
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