[olug] iCloud in the business world

[aric at omahax.com]

I don't think companies that are concerned with security at this level
will use 3rd party cloud storage as an official document repository.  If
an employee decides to distribute confidential information outside of the
corporation there are out of scope issues that software can't solve alone.

If you want to CYA by showing that as an IT department you have
acknowledged the risk I am thinking you could simply write a snort rule
that looks for a signature embedded in confidential documents.

It looks like they already have a snort based solution.
http://code.google.com/p/snortdlp/

> Most bigger shops you will see the increased use of data loss
> prevention (dlp) architectures and appliances.
>
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> On Jun 9, 2011, at 3:23 PM, George De Bruin <sndchaser at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> There's always email...  I have yet to see a company that wouldn't allow
>> sending external emails. :)  If you can email it, it can go
>> anywhere...even
>> if it takes you 10+ messages to send it. :)
>>
>> IMO - iCloud isn't going to be any worse to manage than using things
>> like
>> Google Apps, or GMail.  Sure there are some things that might be easily
>> blocked, like the streaming services or dropbox style functionality, but
>> overall I don't see it posing more of a challenge that Android already
>> does.
>>
>> George
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Barry Von Ahsen <barry at vonahsen.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I expect it would mostly depend on what access you give mobile devices
>>> to
>>> your internal resources (which is a whole other policy PITA) - if they
>>> can't
>>> get in to get the resources, they can't push them out to iCloud
>>>
>>>
>>> apple has released management software, but I have no experience with
>>> it
>>>
>>> http://www.apple.com/support/iphone/enterprise/
>>>
>>> -barry
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 6/9/2011 1:53 PM, Hurley, Rod wrote:
>>>
>>>> Might as well start this conversation early, as it will come up in
>>>> meetings throughout the world.  Simply put, will the new iCloud make
>>>> it hard
>>>> as an IT admin to manage data retention policies, security, and legal
>>>> discovery?  We have users that insist on using their own iPads, etc,
>>>> and
>>>> that's fine, but how does the iCloud change things?
>>>>
>>>> Rod Hurley, SCSE, SQSVA
>>>> Tenaska, Inc.
>>>> P402-758-6187
>>>> C402-981-9561
>>>>
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