Una de las mayores sorpresas de la WWDC 2021 fue la introducción de Apple de iCloud +, una versión mejorada de su servicio existente disponible sin costo adicional que brinda correo electrónico seguro y seguridad similar a una VPN para los clientes.</p><h2><strong>iCloud se acaba de convertir en una herramienta empresarial útil</strong></h2><p>La introducción de estas funciones convertirá a iCloud en una herramienta empresarial remota muy útil, aunque es interesante ver si todas estas funciones estarán disponibles para las empresas que utilizan ID de Apple gestionados para sus herramientas empresariales. Por ahora, supongamos que lo harán, dado el profundo valor que prometen a quienes están en esta industria.
These new tools mean that employees use iCloud:
- Email opening activity will not be tracked by web beacons, as explained here with Email Privacy Protection.
- You will be able to subscribe to mailing lists using fake email addresses.
- Access a built-in VPN with iCloud Private Relay.
- You can create email addresses based on domains.
A game of cat and mouse.
Apple will continue to invest in these protections. Apple's vice president of software engineering, Crag Federighi, confirmed that Apple sees cybersecurity as an ongoing challenge, telling Fast Company: "The incentives for 'innovation' in the operational world are high, so there's a lot of progress." in the art of monitoring; many advances in the arts of security exploits. So in both areas, we think there will continue to be a game of cat and mouse. We believe we bring many tools to this fight, and to a great extent, we can stay ahead and protect our customers. But it is something that we recognize as a battle that we will fight for years to come. In a sense, Apple's decision to secure its platforms reflects the reality that it's becoming a more viable target as its place in the company grows. "Because of its growth in business, Apple devices are now a target of increased security threat," writes Garrett Denney, a senior director at Jamf. “This, along with remote work and schools accessing sensitive cloud resources, has increased demand for even greater security from Apple's platform. And with enhanced security, there is a need to balance data privacy protections and the end-user experience in various contexts. New privacy-focused features like Hide My Email and Private Relay put user privacy at the forefront, enabling privacy protection no matter where devices are used.
Star of the show: iCloud Private Relay
Private Relay is a built-in Internet privacy service that exists in iCloud. It is designed to make it very secure for you to log in and browse the web using Safari by protecting both the site requests you make and the places you visit from being identified. This encrypts traffic (such as web destinations) leaving your device, making requests unreadable even by Apple or your network provider. It works like this:
- When you make a request, it is encrypted and then sent through two separate internet relays;
- The first Apple-operated relay provides you with an anonymous IP address that matches your region, but not your actual location.
- The second relay, owned by a third party, decrypts the web address and forwards it to that destination.
- The magic here is that by dividing the information in this way, no one can see who a user is and which sites they choose to visit. Apple can only see the IP address that you request, while third parties can only see the website that you request.
The system raises the bar for personal security by hiding who is browsing and where the data comes from; this effectively means that you now have a free VPN in Safari. In a presentation at WWDC, Apple explained that Private Relay will also include DNS queries and some application traffic.
What will work with iCloud Private Relay?
Apple says iCloud Private Relay will work with:
- All Safari web browsing;
- All DNS queries when users enter site names;
- All unsecured HTTP traffic.
What won't work with iCloud Private Relay?
Apple has also stated that iCloud Private Relay will not work with:
- Connections to the local network;
- Private domain name inquiries;
- VPN traffic;
- Internet traffic through proxy;
- Anyone claiming to be in another region.
Federighi says that classic VPN protection means you have to trust your provider. "And that's a huge responsibility for this intermediary, and it involves the user making a really difficult trust decision about exposing all of this information to an entity." In other words, Apple's system may be better than a VPN because if VPN providers know who you are and what you're watching, Apple doesn't have that information. Such protection seems like a necessary step, given the number of nasty and unreliable VPN services that seem to exist. In its simplest form, this makes targeting an Apple user much more difficult, which also makes it much more expensive. This should reduce the overall risk environment, although security should never be taken for granted.
You will use Hide my email
Hide My Email, which is based on Sign In with Apple, allows you to share unique and random email addresses that forward messages to your personal inbox, instead of sharing your actual email address. Built into Safari, iCloud settings, and Messaging, this tool is much better than the ad hoc alias system we've used so far, which is controlled in iCloud online. It also allows users to create and delete as many addresses as they need. Simply put, this means that you and your employees using Apple devices now have an unlimited number of recording email addresses that you can use when security is important. iCloud + also allows you to use a custom domain name. Apple positions it as a family-focused service. This means that a family that owns a domain like SmithFamily should be able to create an email address chain like
[email protected] that will work and be recognized by iCloud. We don't have many details on that yet, but it will be interesting to see if this extends (or may be extended at a later date) to Managed Apple IDs for business use.
The Digital Legacy Tool
Vous souvenez-vous de l'époque où, en cas de cècès d'un employé senior, il aurait peut-être été impossible to obtain the document de stratégie sur lequel il travaillait depuis son appareil, même avec l'aide de sa famille mourning ? This should no longer be a problem with Digital Legacy. This allows users to designate family or friends as authorized persons to access digital data such as photos and other personal data left in a person's iCloud account after death. To set up the feature, a person must specify who can access the account in the event of death. These legacy contacts will be able to access that account, though they will have to go through some sort of verification process, the details of which are still unclear. We think there will be a lot more to learn about iCloud+. After all, the notion of "plus" service means there will always be a basic service, and I can't help but wonder if that will keep the free 5GB service slightly better. There are also some useful changes to the recovery feature, which will now allow you to assign friends or family members you can trust to receive security codes on your behalf if you lose your device. Prices remain the same: 50GB of storage with one HomeKit Secure Video Camera (99 cents per month), 200GB with up to five HomeKit Secure Video Cameras ($2.99 per month), and 2TB with HomeKit Secure Video Cameras unlimited (€9,99 per month). month). The maximum number of cameras used is five, and storage from those cameras no longer counts toward your iCloud limit. Existing iCloud users (presumably those on paid tiers) will upgrade to iCloud+ this fall when iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and macOS Monterey ship.
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