Data in cloud 'as secure as other environments'

2009-07-22

Data in the cloud is no more or less secure than in any other environment, it has been suggested.

Steve Moyle, writing in the Secerno blog, said that a recent data breach at Twitter where confidential employee and company information was taken and sent to TechCrunch could have happened "in a traditional implementation".

He asserted that the data breach initially appears to the industry as "a security failure in the cloud" but is really "an exploit of the password recovery system and other features of Google Apps".

"Twitter serves as reminder that open does not mean secure," Mr Moyle stated.

He added that at the very least, the data breach at Twitter hints that standard password protection practices were not followed.

It recently emerged that the breach at Twitter was the result of a hack targeting one of the company's employees.

Co-founder of the site Biz Stone stated in a blog that the attack did not have anything to do with a vulnerability in Google Apps.

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