Cloud computing and it's security aspect.

[ByTeWrangler]

What the AV vendors are doing is something firewall vendors started years back.. Where rules you create are sent back to the vendor and he decides to either roll them out to all his customers or if he finds them malicious he doesn't do anything..

This is basically what I’m talking about :

http://www.agnitum.com/support/improvenet/technical.php

.. If AV vendors use the cloud to pass on information fast to everyone else, its good idea. Using information from the cloud to protect customers will definitely be good but I think for one vendor "trend" they're going the wrong way as of now to an extent.

Speaking of cloud to provide service like Amazon or Google.. What are your thoughts ? How will privacy laws affect data being given out submitted in the cloud affect current situations?

The thread is actually alive !



EDIT : I was going over how trend is planning to roll out its AV in coming months which will utilize cloud architecture .. I had a question will all these machines sending information to the cloud, wouldn't the processing be over whelming ? I mean so many files, so many MD5's (I think they should have SHA1 or above, but whatever) wouldn't it be an information overflow ?