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Why? It can still be connected to SIPRnet or JWICS. Or customers can get a Direct Connect from their existing facilities into the region. I presume the USG has
by jlgaddis 9y ago
Why? It can still be connected to SIPRnet or JWICS.
Or customers can get a Direct Connect from their existing facilities into the region. I presume the USG has plenty of fiber straight into these new datacenters and I'm not sure why Amazon wouldn't allow Direct Connect.
As someone else mentioned, perhaps this will get contractors to stop using public S3 buckets to share data.
- jsjohnst 9y agoThat’s not “air gapped” if it’s connected to another government network.
- jlgaddis 9y agoIt's air-gapped from the Internet.
- Gigablah 9y agoWhat if it’s submerged in coolant?
- jsjohnst 9y agoThe term “air gap” does not directly imply anything to do with the Internet (doesn’t exclude it, but it applies more generally than specific networks). Yes, IC uses it to signify high/low networks, but the original usage of the term was to indicate a machine with no direct connection to the outside world. The theory being (since proven wrong), you can’t exfiltrate data remotely from a device not connected to a network.
- dsl 9y agoJWICS/SIPR/NSAnet/etc. are air gapped in that terminals are not allowed to be dual homed to any other network or to each other.
- jsjohnst 9y agoYes, I know the inteligence community uses this definition of air gap to signify the barrier between high/low networks, but I kinda feel it misses the point of the term. If it is networked to the outside world, even securely, I feel it kinda misses the point of the “air gap” connotation (aka requiring a “sneaker net” to get data in / out). I’m likely being pedantic though, so I upvoted you as you at least gave a good response unlike others.