Scenario: As part of the banking process, customer need to be able to review confidential data located in the local area network (LAN) of First World Bank Savings and Loan. That is a requirement from the underwriters and various legal advisors. However, the organization needs to deliver this highly confidential customer data in Portable Document Format (PDF) format for its online customers. This data is typically uploaded to a Linux file server by the bank employees within the LAN. However, online customers (1) need to have access to their own particular data, but (2) at the same time, the customers should not be able to modify the data. Tasks You need to: Design a file storage server architecture for the proposed Web-based infrastructure to support customers. Describe specifically how data can be shared with the Web server in a secure fashion.

Which kind of data files are most suited for archival in online settings like the cloud? If you have the option to preserve the information locally, then why would you choose to save it on the cloud rather than on an external hard drive?

Who is liable for a data breach in a cloud computing environment? Is it the organization that contracted with the cloud provider to use the provider’s resources, or is it the provider itself? The current legal framework regarding data breaches is not well defined. Under most current laws, the data owners (the organization that has accumulated and is storing user data on the cloud) are responsible for data breaches, and thus must pay any fines or fees that are the result of legal action by its customers due to a data breach. The data holder (the cloud provider) under current law cannot be legally implicated or held responsible for a data breach; if a data breach occurs, the data holder (cloud provider) must notify the data owner (the organization) but it is not required to take additional steps. Is this appropriate? Should the data holder shoulder responsibility if it can be proven that they were at least partially at fault? Or should it be the responsibility of the data owner to…

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