[colug-432] Cloud services and security

[Travis Sidelinger]

Also, Amazon may very well offer static IP services, but at lease one
of the cloud solutions we would like to use does not want to
cooperate.



On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Joshua Kramer <josh at globalherald.net> wrote:
>
>> Any colug'ers have experience with maintaining security with cloud
>> services?  We firewall everything inbound and outbound for our DMZ
>
> What failure modes are you trying to protect against?
>
> Random servers consuming your web services?
>
> Or someone "stealing" (copying) your machine images from EC2 and launching
> them in a random location?
>
> You could use client certificate authentication if "stealing your machine"
> is not a concern.
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