[There's a reason that Yoda is the unofficial mascot of SBS.  Size indeed matters not.] About that cloud.... - THE OFFICIAL BLOG OF THE SBS "DIVA"
Thursday, May 29, 2008 8:15 PM bradley

About that cloud....

Some online backup services insecure - heise online UK:
http://www.heise-online.co.uk/news/Some-online-backup-services-insecure--/110771

Does the cloud have maintenance windows that match your needs for maintenance?

Read that.  The Cloud has issues.  Be aware of that.

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# re: About that cloud....

Friday, May 30, 2008 12:12 AM by Jennifer

http://www.BackupReview.info has all the story in its home page.

Check it out.

# re: About that cloud....

Friday, May 30, 2008 6:45 AM by Amy

Sweet. I've been recommending carbonite for well over a year and personally using it too.

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# re: About that cloud....

Wednesday, June 11, 2008 5:28 AM by John

I don't like Carbonite I used it for some days but I think it is very slow... I tried Memopal and I follow in love with it! Also they say they assures a high level standard of data security. <a href="www.memopal.com/.../memopal-assures-a-high-level-standard-of-data-security.htm">Read!</a>

# re: About that cloud....

Wednesday, June 11, 2008 9:02 AM by Lucia Bracci

Memopal assures a high level standard of data security

In Memopals’ infrastructure every connection to a server having an un-trusted certificate is refused by the client to prevent the Man in the middle attack.

Memopal is constantly evolving its security model to assure a high level standard of data security.

In Memopals’ infrastructure, all the connection between client and server are SSL-encrypted using server-side certificate and every connection to a server having an un-trusted certificate is refused by the client to prevent the Man in the middle attack.

The authentication phase starts only after a valid SSL connection is established, so when a fake certificate is proposed to the client no username or password is sent from the client to the server.

Moreover, to install the Memopal client is necessary to gain a privileged user account, so nobody may have installed Memopal on your PC to steal your data.

Data are transferred encrypted from the client to the server, and are stored in an encrypted FS also distributed in chunks with a  RAID-5 like policy.

Watching inside the MGFS (Memopal Global File System) it’s impossible to know who owned the backuped file and the original filename. So if someone takes a storage unit from the Memopal infrastructure, he never has access to a common sense information to disclose it.

The data structure contains the associations between the file and the owner is also encrypted and not accessible to the support people during the support phase.

In the current beta-release we are testing a client-side certificate validation to prevent possible server-side attack.

Memopal is online backup and online storage software that archives your files in real-time to a remote server. It doesn't matter how many times you change computers: You will always know where your data is. You can browse all your files from any internet location or internet-ready cell phone. You can share with friends and co-workers files that are too big to send through email.

Andrea Cecchetti

Chief Information Security Officer - Memopal