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Why do we think that 'our own servers' gives us 'better security'? I think this is the illusion of control. "security assurances as if I were to have my own l
by jariel 6y ago
Why do we think that 'our own servers' gives us 'better security'?
I think this is the illusion of control.
"security assurances as if I were to have my own locked cage at some colo."
'Locked cage' - is not going to help us secure it from the kind of intrusion we are afraid of.
Scale means more layers of vms, more redundancy, more sophisticated security teams etc..
Physically, Fort Knox has never been robbed, whereas any mom and pop shop can be.
I'm really surprised the US Military has not been working with the FAANGS to produce a new OS that is fundamentally more secure and containerized, including a networking stack with identity built right in, and of course, working on easy solutions for the user side of the equation as well to thwart social attacks. And maybe possibly systems architecture groupings to bifurcate systems from one another.
- salawat 6y agoThat would be because the last time DoD did the most workable and approachable solution was one without all those gubbins that you could just bolt on later. By the way, what you're endorsing are essentially ASICS. They're fundamentally impractical as all hell. The logistics of security causes a verbosity explosion when you actually need to change something. Imagine the world we have now with 1000x the paperwork, and a bigger chunk of the populace devoted to just enabling somebody to go from point A to B to do something. And even then. You're only as secure as your Users will tolerate.