To Move Cloud Information Security Solutions?

I have repeatedly argued in our blog about where is information security industry and, in particular, DLP-solutions - both in Europe and globally. Subject is perhaps almost inexhaustible, so I will continue her current post.

It is no secret that today everything is going in the "cloud." Most antivirus companies working to create "cloud solutions" that will shift the main burden of the detection and elimination of harmful software on a remote server antivirus software manufacturer. Such decisions will relieve the user workstations and corporate servers. But the most important advantage of the implementation of such decisions is that the user in a matter of seconds can get access to the latest databases. In this update databases are much faster, the efficiency remains at a consistently high level, with minimum cost to the user.

Virtually any IT market there are companies that offer their customers cloud solutions. But they will inevitably face technology with all its benefits have a serious drawback: they are overwhelmed Corporate Internet channel. That is why, I think, Cloud DLP - matter more than the distant future. Imagine the amount of traffic faced by DLP'shka even a relatively small company with three or four dozen workstations, - when the company will be quite thick channel to transfer it all to the server to receive within a reasonable time from the server reply whether the transmitted information is confidential or not.

Therefore, no matter what the IB system or went into the "cloud", I'm afraid, DLP-solutions will be the last to catch up to. What do you think about this?

s3ql File System Based Cloud Storage

Description

With S3QL you can create a File System Based Cloud Storage, which can be mounted in any modern version of OS Linux, FreeBSD and Mac OS X.

Capabilities and Transparency

S3QL virtually indistinguishable from the local file system. It supports hardlinks, symlinks, standard system permissions, extended attributes, and files up to 2TB.

Dynamic Size

The size of the file system is not limited, and it increases when the data is saved and decreased after removal. On the local disk cached data are stored.

Compression

Before saving to the cloud data can be compressed (supported lzma, bzip2, zlib).

Encryption

After compression (but before the repository) data can be encrypted with the encryption algorithm AES 256 bit key. Also, using the optional SHA256 HMAC checksum for data protection from external manipulation.

De-duplication

If multiple files have the same content, the duplicate data will be written to only once, allowing you to efficiently store a large number of similar data, the minimum occupied volume. This functionality operates as an entire file, and the data blocks that are repeated in different files.

Copy-on-Write / Snapshotting

S3QL can quickly copy the entire folder without using additional disk space. Only when you make changes to one of the copies of the changed data will take up additional space.

Protecting data from change

You can prevent the change data for the directory, for example, to store backups that are protected from accidental deletion.

High performance regardless of network delays

Operations related to the restructuring (creation of directories, move files and change rights) are carried out very quickly, so they do not require networking.

Support for Slow Links

S3QL divides the content file into smaller blocks, and caches them locally, thereby reducing the number of network applications read and write data, and also reduces the amount of data transmitted, since only the changed data blocks are transmitted over the network.

Setting

Package s3ql available in the repositories of Debian (sid) and Ubuntu, the installation of which is reduced to the normal run apt-get install s3ql.
If you do not have a repository of the package, or you do not like its version, you can always install it manually using the instructions.