{"id":5615,"date":"2013-01-15T13:25:31","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T12:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/?p=5615"},"modified":"2021-05-20T12:56:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-20T12:56:43","slug":"more-to-security-than-encryption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/blogs\/more-to-security-than-encryption\/","title":{"rendered":"More to Security than Encryption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:en-->We were having some debates internally here a few months back over when you could call something secure. Is it ok to call something secure, for instance, if it lacks encryption?<\/p>\n<p>My answer to this is actually a (qualified) yes.<\/p>\n<p>Having server side encryption is great \u0096 and ultimately is a very important check-box\u0094 feature but I would argue it is ultimately the control you have over your data that is more important to its security.<\/p>\n<p>What we do at ownCloud is give customers as much openness and control as possible over their data \u0096 through integration with their monitoring, firewall policies as well as their own storage (or even third-party storage they choose).<\/p>\n<p>Availability as security &#8212; If you own your data it can&#8217;t be lost because someone is shutting the cloud service down, or if AWS\/Dropbox goes down.<br \/>\n\u0095<br \/>\nIntegration as security &#8212; ownCloud can be integrated in existing firewalls and <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link \" href=\"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/features\/auditing\/\"  title=\"auditing\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">auditing<\/a> tools.<br \/>\n\u0095<br \/>\nOpenness as security &#8212; ownCloud can run on top of encrypted file systems to have full encryption. It is open source so you or someone else<br \/>\ncan review the code and make sure that no backdoors exist.<\/p>\n<p>\u0095Control as security &#8212; ownCloud runs in an environment you control. So you can be sure that the most secure server environment is used. You can use a hardened and certified infrastructure.<br \/>\n\u0095<br \/>\nFirewall as security &#8212; It can be used completely internally in an organization behind a strong firewall or in an intranet.<\/p>\n<p>As I said, encryption is (ultimately) a very important \u0093checkbox\u0094 feature, but all the encryption in the world won\u0092t make you secure without control.<!--:--><!--:de--><!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were having some debates internally here a few months back over when you could call something secure. Is it ok to call something secure, for instance, if it lacks encryption? My answer to this is actually a (qualified) yes. Having server side encryption is great \u0096 and ultimately is a very important check-box\u0094 feature [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":78665,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61439,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5615\/revisions\/61439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}