Is Your Data Safe in the Cloud?

Grazed from Business2Community. Author: Rens van der Windt.

Many businesses share and store sensitive data in the cloud. As more and more of our private data is stored in a way which makes it accessible anywhere, and an increasing number of businesses start storing their valuable documents on cloud based services, a question arises: is your data safe in the cloud?

Cloud storage is a very convenient tool to help us solve the continuous need for large and more easily accessible storage space to hold all of our digital property, but is our personal data safe out there on the internet? Three cloud technology experts give their opinion…

Michael Good kicks off. He is the CEO of IT New York and former teenage hacker. Here he gives us his three golden rules we need to abide by to keep our data safe: “Passwords can be hacked. So, try to pick a cloud storage service that uses two –step authentication and create difficult passwords. “People are more dangerous than computers when it comes to hacking. Don’t give out your password to anyone. “Data can be captured as it is being processed. If your cloud storage works through a web application, look for https instead of http in front of the URL in your browser’s address bar. The extra ‘s’ specifies the form is using secure http.”…

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