The question always remains, “What are companies doing to ensure that our information is secure?”. Apple has been making moves to ensure that its users are safe, after various data breaches over its lifetime.
“Reports Tuesday that Apple had become Google’s largest customer of cloud data services – and that the iCloud data was encrypted by Apple – was viewed as a positive development by some security researchers, who said more companies need to take the shared responsibility model with cloud service providers (CSPs) seriously.
The report said Apple was on track to spend about $300 million on Google cloud storage services in 2021 – a 50% increase year-over-year. And because the data gets encrypted by Apple, Google can’t obtain the customer’s iCloud information. The same also holds true for Apple iCloud data stored at Amazon Web Services, according to the report.
Apple, through its product announcements and frequent television ads, has cultivated an image as a provider focused on privacy and security – and encrypting the data in the cloud supports those goals, said Tim Erlin, vice president, product management and strategy at Tripwire.
“The use of third-party cloud storage alone shouldn’t impact that image or reality, but just like any other organization, Apple is ultimately responsible for the security of their customers’ data. When you put sensitive data into a third-party application or storage, you don’t magically give up responsibility for security.” “
The company has decided to include and implement several security features from both Google and AWS. The directors have decided after analyzing Google’s “Cloud” that it would make sense to use.
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