Where is my big data: security, privacy and jurisdictions in the cloud
1. copyright 2015
Where is my big data: security,
privacy and jurisdictions in the cloud
Chris Swan
@cpswan
2. copyright 2015
Agenda
• My background
• What do I mean by big data?
• Cloud security
• Regulation and Jurisdiction
• So what can you do?
3. copyright 2015
My background
CTO
CTO Client Experience
Co-head CTO Security
Corporate Finance
fintech, early stage
IT R&D – Networks and security
Grid, app server engineering
Combat System Engineer
5. copyright 2015
Misquoting Roger Needham
Whoever thinks their analytics
problem is solved by big data,
doesn’t understand their analytics
problem and doesn’t understand
big data
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7. copyright 2015
The 2x2 view
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Based on a blog post from April 2012 – http://is.gd/swbdla
Problem Types
Algorithm Complexity
DataVolume
Simple
Big Data
Quant
8. copyright 2015
Advertising is the canonical use
“By and large, the story of web advertising and ad
companies and networks is a story of organizations
aggressively and unapologetically tracking and intruding on
people for years.”
Chris Siebenmann
http://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/
blog/web/AdblockingAndMorality
18. copyright 2015
Physical location is not enough
Alexander Hanff
http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/opinion/2403739
/why-amazons-new-eu-data-centres-are-just-as-
vulnerable-to-nsa-surveillance-as-their-us-ones