| That’s not how to look at this. The point is not if the Cloud can defend against a very sophisticated attack, the point is whether they can at least do a better job than what those big companies are doing. And the answer is really easy: Fortune 500 are at the Stone Age of security (among a lot of other computer science topics) so of course the Cloud is doing better. It’s not even the same world or the same order of magnitude. And the abyss will become bigger and bigger because it’s becoming more complex. There is no way a Fortune 500 company can keep up with the complexity of what AWS, Google or Azure is dealing with, and the new tech world we live in. And it’s also quite stupid, that’s not your job nor where you will be making money. Just concentrate on the app/code that is indeed your core job, on top of solid and proven Cloud services. Also, you talk about centralisation and the issue of a single provider, well, here’s the actual joke: the level of centralization and concentration is way, way bigger internally than if it was on the Cloud. Most of those Fortune 500 companies have only a few datacenters. Although they are international, some even have datacenters only in their local region of origin, with zero region/local hub of some sort, as crazy as it may sound. And most of those Fortune 500 companies have only one provider for each of their key component. If they were on the Cloud (and they will be, eventually), reversibility and transferability is « built-in » almost, because it is an actual feature, or because everything is way more standardized, or just because moving into the Cloud, you will think from the start about how to move back or to a different provider. And in any case is much much better than the state there’s in. |