advice for cloud solution

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I have someone who is looking for a secure cloud solution to host client information.

There are various sites globally, and each site will be uploading and accessing client information. In terms of bandwidth, minimal. User base estimated at 10 persons.

In terms of options, we could go with an Iaas cloud solution, and then host the files on their storage. The servers would be fire-walled, and of course the client would need to communicate with the servers via encrypted connection.

Problem is that a lot of Iaas cloud solutions offer zero kind of tunneling....

Any suggestions?
 
I have someone who is looking for a secure cloud solution to host client information.

There are various sites globally, and each site will be uploading and accessing client information. In terms of bandwidth, minimal. User base estimated at 10 persons.

In terms of options, we could go with an Iaas cloud solution, and then host the files on their storage. The servers would be fire-walled, and of course the client would need to communicate with the servers via encrypted connection.

Problem is that a lot of Iaas cloud solutions offer zero kind of tunneling....

Any suggestions?

Azure, you can use client to cloud VPN or site to cloud if needed.
 
If all you're looking for is secure file sharing, search for "Zero-Knowledge" solutions.
With Zero-Knowledge cloud file share, you configure keys on the clients. The cloud server does not have the keys so the data cannot be decrypted even if credentials are compromised.
Since the data is encrypted on the client before it is sent to the share, there isn't really a need to ensure a secure tunnel as the payload is already secure.
 
If all you're looking for is secure file sharing, search for "Zero-Knowledge" solutions.
With Zero-Knowledge cloud file share, you configure keys on the clients. The cloud server does not have the keys so the data cannot be decrypted even if credentials are compromised.
Since the data is encrypted on the client before it is sent to the share, there isn't really a need to ensure a secure tunnel as the payload is already secure.

Thanks for this
 
If all you're looking for is secure file sharing, search for "Zero-Knowledge" solutions.
With Zero-Knowledge cloud file share, you configure keys on the clients. The cloud server does not have the keys so the data cannot be decrypted even if credentials are compromised.
Since the data is encrypted on the client before it is sent to the share, there isn't really a need to ensure a secure tunnel as the payload is already secure.

found sync.com and it's very impressive.

seems like you cant configure the encryption though?
 
How much work do you want put into this..? If you dont mind a little bit of work, I would say look at AWS.. Store the files in S3.. Lock the S3 bucket down to an EC2 instance in a Non-Public bucket using a VPC Endpoint and have a Front end EC2 server locked down with a VPN tunnel to each site.. You can also have the files be encrypted on the S3 bucket..
 
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