Is Cloud Computing Safe? - Rob Braxman Tech
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Date: 2022-03-20
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Syping
I wouldn't trust Amazon AWS or Google etc. and prefer to have a Server which have my own Physical hardware, which cost much more to start with but gets cheaper than a VPS solution as soon you scale up the things you do.
One big risk i see in VPS are often the Live setup APIs between Provider and Server, while it's good in that way when you add a new IP or Disk etc. it will be automatically added, but a malicious provider (Amazon and Google possible doing, could use it to install spy software directly in your VPS.
Physical hardware setups aren't always hard, some Server provider allow you to configure Network booting and the provider i use have a vKVM image which boots the Server into a Virtual Machine, allowing me to repair my Server for example or installing an OS which needs the GUI, my Provider also have VNC installer images or allowing me to upload my own images, to have real physical access (from far) they have KVM server, which are limited so you have to rent it, but most times not required to use at all, unless you want configure the BIOS or update it. You can tell the company to doing that for you instead of renting the KVM server.
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I wouldn't trust Amazon AWS or Google etc. and prefer to have a Server which have my own Physical hardware, which cost much more to start with but gets cheaper than a VPS solution as soon you scale up the things you do.
One big risk i see in VPS are often the Live setup APIs between Provider and Server, while it's good in that way when you add a new IP or Disk etc. it will be automatically added, but a malicious provider (Amazon and Google possible doing, could use it to install spy software directly in your VPS.
Physical hardware setups aren't always hard, some Server provider allow you to configure Network booting and the provider i use have a vKVM image which boots the Server into a Virtual Machine, allowing me to repair my Server for example or installing an OS which needs the GUI, my Provider also have VNC installer images or allowing me to upload my own images, to have real physical access (from far) they have KVM server, which are limited so you have to rent it, but most times not required to use at all, unless you want configure the BIOS or update it. You can tell the company to doing that for you instead of renting the KVM server.
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StringerNews1
Can't reboot a remote computer? Must be a n00b. I've been using serial console servers to access and restart hung machines for 20 years, and remote console access was around before that. Now there's IPMI. Even if the whole physical machine is non-responsive, modern data centers have individually addressable outlets as part of their power distribution systems. Even small offices can but smaller versions of these that control one or two outlets.
I can't recall a cleaning crew ever coming into any data center that I used. It was up to us to find someone junior (but vetted) to do the cleaning so we didn't have to.
I started using Linux exclusively 20 years ago. My job involved managing NetWare, Windows, Citrix and VMS machines, and by 2000 it was possible to do everything I needed to do from a Linux machine. There was a guy who was technically the manager of the data center there, and he always gave me grief about -that damn penguin- in his words. I forget what happened to him, but I took over his responsibilities.
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Can't reboot a remote computer? Must be a n00b. I've been using serial console servers to access and restart hung machines for 20 years, and remote console access was around before that. Now there's IPMI. Even if the whole physical machine is non-responsive, modern data centers have individually addressable outlets as part of their power distribution systems. Even small offices can but smaller versions of these that control one or two outlets.
I can't recall a cleaning crew ever coming into any data center that I used. It was up to us to find someone junior (but vetted) to do the cleaning so we didn't have to.
I started using Linux exclusively 20 years ago. My job involved managing NetWare, Windows, Citrix and VMS machines, and by 2000 it was possible to do everything I needed to do from a Linux machine. There was a guy who was technically the manager of the data center there, and he always gave me grief about -that damn penguin- in his words. I forget what happened to him, but I took over his responsibilities.
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Paraplegic
Whoa! Whoa! STOP!
PPTP has numerous well-known security flaws and not even Microsoft recommends it anymore.
OpenVPN, OpenSWAN, StrongSWAN, Wireguard, or even a bare SSH tunnel are more secure than PPTP. OpenVPN would be the preferred choice. The two SWANs are less well developed and far more complicated to set up, SSH tunneling has capacity problems, and Wireguard still has not had sufficient code-audit for trust in real-world scenarios, especially high-availability applications.
Flagged thumbs-down for misleading and dangerous VPN guidance.
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Whoa! Whoa! STOP!
PPTP has numerous well-known security flaws and not even Microsoft recommends it anymore.
OpenVPN, OpenSWAN, StrongSWAN, Wireguard, or even a bare SSH tunnel are more secure than PPTP. OpenVPN would be the preferred choice. The two SWANs are less well developed and far more complicated to set up, SSH tunneling has capacity problems, and Wireguard still has not had sufficient code-audit for trust in real-world scenarios, especially high-availability applications.
Flagged thumbs-down for misleading and dangerous VPN guidance.
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OLD
While i still have a youtube account and can still like i will. downside of cloud is if internet is not available it is not. the downside of local is if fire or flood hits everything is gone. backups for backups in the old days itf you were in a store and the power went out the clerk might grab a hand crank and keep going or do it on a mechanical adding machine with paper tape or even use pencil and paper now if power goes out customers do too.
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While i still have a youtube account and can still like i will. downside of cloud is if internet is not available it is not. the downside of local is if fire or flood hits everything is gone. backups for backups in the old days itf you were in a store and the power went out the clerk might grab a hand crank and keep going or do it on a mechanical adding machine with paper tape or even use pencil and paper now if power goes out customers do too.
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Nicegy019
Considering the negligence of data security we've seen from major companies over the last few years, cloud computing should be avoided unless you actually own your servers and have at least 1-2 IT people manage them. The only -benefit- to renting servers and IT support from other companies is that you can shift the blame when something goes wrong.
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Considering the negligence of data security we've seen from major companies over the last few years, cloud computing should be avoided unless you actually own your servers and have at least 1-2 IT people manage them. The only -benefit- to renting servers and IT support from other companies is that you can shift the blame when something goes wrong.
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Fattieman2
In a future video, could you maybe cover -personal cloud storage- providers that advertise as being secure? Examples: Sync, SpiderOak, Tresorit, PCloud, etc.
Would love to know your thoughts!
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In a future video, could you maybe cover -personal cloud storage- providers that advertise as being secure? Examples: Sync, SpiderOak, Tresorit, PCloud, etc.
Would love to know your thoughts!
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air
what cloud computing services that do not look into my data or generally private? Since aws is profiling me and i need security due to the nature of the website that i hold.
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what cloud computing services that do not look into my data or generally private? Since aws is profiling me and i need security due to the nature of the website that i hold.
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Tetravoxium
U know what's worse than the both of those? My dad's work has their support team and their servers in a random sweatshop in India
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U know what's worse than the both of those? My dad's work has their support team and their servers in a random sweatshop in India
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