Data Protection & Cybersecurity
Control over data is becoming a more relevant concern in light of the EU GDPR and data protection laws at the national level. We believe that no business should be excluded from the modern conveniences of cloud-based applications to maintain the privacy of their customers.
Oracle Cloud added a region in Zurich in August 2019 providing IaaS and PaaS services to public cloud customers who want to host their data in Switzerland. Some of the reasons that Oracle cited for opening their third European region in Switzerland were “neutrality, legal certainty, political stability and security.”
Minio is an on-premises object storage server that can be deployed as a Minio cluster (with local storage) or as a gateway to other object storage services with their own API such as Backblaze B2, Azure Blob Storage, and Google Cloud Storage. Because Minio exposes a S3 compatible endpoint, virtually any application that supports the AWS SDK can be integrated with it. According to Minio, half of the Fortune 500 have deployed Minio for storage, including for cloud-native workloads such as Kubernetes.
When most people think about the dark web, they think it’s a sketchy place where the ne’er-do-wells of the Internet gather. Despite its negative connotations to the less informed, the dark web made up of Tor hidden services has legitimate purposes. What is a Tor hidden service? It is a web server listening on the Tor network at an .onion address instead of a standard domain name like .com or .org. All of the traffic to and from a hidden service are end-to-end encrypted through Tor relays – without the need for an SSL certificate.
Cloud-based object storage is one of the most cost-effective ways to achieve large quantities of scalable storage for a NextCloud instance. Thanks to NextCloud’s support for using an S3 (compatible) primary storage backend, this option is available from small businesses to enterprises of all sizes.
The NextCry strain of ransomware has made the headlines for infiltrating some improperly configured NextCloud servers, leaving many organizations asking, “Is NextCloud still secure to store my critical data?” The answer to that question is unequivocally, “yes.”
ProtonMail is the most well known encrypted email service in Switzerland, and perhaps the world. It began as a crowdfunded project initiated by a team of researchers at CERN, growing into the full-fledged email service it is today. Like we mentioned earlier, we love ProtonMail and their contribution to the browser-based encryption library, OpenPGP.js. What fewer people know though is that it’s possible to host your own email server in Switzerland – and use OpenPGP and/or S/MIME to exchange encrypted email.