Cloud Computing: What Google knows about data security that you should know too
February 23, 2015
Grazed from CBC. Author: Jeff Green.
A new report on cloud storage prepared for Google by a Hamilton-based risk advisor shows that businesses need to take a truly global look to completely secure data. And in an interview with the CBC, James Arlen, director of risk and advisory services for Leviathan Security Group, says the same principles of data security companies such as Google need, apply to your personal data, too.
Arlen said the average person treats their personal memories like a digital shoe box, adding it just takes one "flood" for a catastrophic loss to occur. "The person who kept all the photos of the first four years of their child’s life on their computer and now their hard drive crashed," Arlen said. "Now your child’s photographic life begins at four."…
Taking it a step further, Arlen points out a lot of people may not even know they are at risk. Take for example, he said, people who use their personal device for work. "One of things you agree to is if you lose your smartphone, work can wipe it," Arlen said…
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