Re:We use our own hardware at Fastmail
by wslh on Sunday December 22, 2024 @12:22PM
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From a critical perspective, your comment made me think about the risks posed by rogue IT personnel, especially at scale in the cloud. For example, Fastmail is a single point of failure as a DoS target, whereas attacking an entire datacenter can impact multiple clients simultaneously. It all comes down to understanding the attack vectors.
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Re:We use our own hardware at Fastmail
by UltraSane on Sunday December 22, 2024 @12:30PM
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Cloud providers are very big targets but have enormous economic incentive to be secure and thus have very large teams of very competent security experts.
You can have full security competence but be a rogue actor at the same time.
Re:We use our own hardware at Fastmail
by portaouflop on Sunday December 22, 2024 @02:50PM
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You can also have rogue actors in your company, you don’t need 3rd parties for that
That doesn't sum up my comments in the thread. A rogue actor in a datacenter could attack zillions of companies at the same time while rogue actors in a single company only once.
Re:We use our own hardware at Fastmail
by UltraSane on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @06:47AM
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And I bet AWS is also better at detecting rogue actors.