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Key point of the article: "Snowflake allows its corporate customers, like tech companies and telcos, to analyze huge amounts of customer data in the cloud. It’
by zsdfgyn 2y ago
Key point of the article:
"Snowflake allows its corporate customers, like tech companies and telcos, to analyze huge amounts of customer data in the cloud. It’s not clear for what reason AT&T was storing customer data in Snowflake, and the spokesperson would not say."
Finally journalists are asking the question why customer data must be stored with third party cloud providers. AT&T is a long way from Bell Labs, shame on them.
- orochimaaru 2y agoAll companies use third party cloud providers. A lot of legacy companies have been shutting down data centers to move to the cloud. So there isn’t a question of whether why your data is in the cloud. It’s going to be in the cloud.
- sbarre 2y agoAnd honestly, I think I'd rather trust cloud providers with the data than the remnants of a decimated IT team in a large enterprise that's struggling to maintain their own on-prem infrastructure that's super old and probably not up to date on patches.
- Andrex 2y agoThe problem is then you have even fewer technically-competent people internally to actually manage the cloud, and combined with AWS's many documented footguns it's not clear to me the "new normal" is actually any better for security. You go from being a potentially-small-fry target to getting your data collated in massive breaches. There's risks to both.
- orochimaaru 2y agoThat’s the thing though - this was a snowflake breach. It’s not an AT&T miss because of their decimated sw engineering teams. Snowflake has much better sw engineering than AT&T.