FTC probes whether increased competition could bolster security practices of cloud providers

FTC Chairwoman Lina Khan laid out several priorities in the commission’s inquiry into anti-competitive practices among cloud service providers, including the potential impact on investments in security measures and issues around resiliency, in a virtual event on the FTC’s request for information.

“Cloud computing as we all know is now a central part of our economy. It is the engine that is driving the proliferation of data driven services from video conferencing to streaming to artificial intelligence and it now...