Cloud Host Digital Ocean Reverses Imprudent Scrubbing Policy
January 31, 2014
Sometimes a company can grow too fast for its own good. Take the case of DigitalOcean, which eWeek describes in its piece, “Scrubbing Data a Concern in the Digital Ocean Cloud.” It was recently discovered that the cloud hosting firm was not automatically scrubbing user data after every deletion of a virtual machine (VM) instance—not good for security. Apparently, the young company once scrubbed after each VM destroy request, but changed that policy as their growth ballooned.
Writer Sean Michael Kerner tells us:
“As Digital Ocean’s utilization went up, the company found that the scrubbing activity was degrading performance and decided to make it an option that API users needed to manually activate. [DigitalOcean CEO Moisey] Uretsky told eWEEK that even though the data scrubbing has an impact, it is now a cost that his company will bear.
Digital Ocean grew very quickly in 2013, to at least 7,000 Web-facing servers in June 2013, up from only 100 in December 2012, according to Netcraft. One of the reasons for the rapid rise has been Digital Ocean’s aggressive pricing, which starts at $5 for a server with 512MB of memory and a 20GB solid-state drive for a month of cloud service.”
At least the company is taking responsibility for, and learning from, the mistake. Not only is DigitalOcean now faithfully scrubbing every deleted VM instance in sight, Uretsky also specified that his company is hastening to make other changes based on customer feedback. They also, he noted, pledge not to reveal customer data to third parties. The imprudent scrub-optional policy only affected certain DigitalOcean API users, and it does not appear from the article that any programmers were harmed. Headquartered in New York City, DigitalOcean graduated from the TechStars startup accelerator program in 2012.
Cynthia Murrell, January 31, 2014
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