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It doesn't matter how secure 4 providers are. There are only 4. OpSec won't stop a submarine from bombing underwater fiber. OpSec won't stop a missile heading f
by zelon88 4y ago
It doesn't matter how secure 4 providers are. There are only 4. OpSec won't stop a submarine from bombing underwater fiber. OpSec won't stop a missile heading for the data center. The strategic importance of our consolidated infrastructure WILL be a paramount target for any enemy of the west.
On-prem business is a diversified attack vector. Cloud storage is a consolidated attack vector. Would russia rather attack 100,000 small diverse targets, or one enormous target with 1,000,000s of customers?
- hn_throwaway_99 4y agoIf your primary concern is global thermonuclear war, then like other commenters have said, I think we'll have much more important things to worry about.
- MaxBarraclough 4y agoIf your goal is to avoid downtime in case of nuclear war, you could use a managed distributed database solution from a cloud provider. Also, attacks against 'on-prem' services still scale, in the sense that an exploit against a service's code can be used on any number of independent deployments of that code. The solution to that is to actively avoid monoculture. [0] [0] https://indieweb.org/monoculture https://indieweb.org/monoculture