The perimeter is everywhere (so where is your data really?)

It’s hard to protect what you don’t understand. It’s also hard to protect data if you don’t know where it is. If your data has silently been mirrored to a data center overseas while migrating its way around the cloud, how would you know? How would you really be able either to protect it or know with certainty how secure it is? This is the problem with converging data – assuming it will work and be secure, and still interoperate and behave.

If you don’t know where your data is, you may not have much luck protecting it legally, or really knowing how that might happen across different overseas jurisdictions if you run into trouble. In that sense, it’s very hard nowadays to understand what’s really happening in the cloud; you just hope for the best – security-wise.

The perimeter is everywhere (so where is your data really?)