Security Dangers Of Cloud Computing

Grazed from CloudTweaks. Author: Daniel Price.

As we’ve seen on this website, cloud computing has an untold number of virtues. From improved portability to increased green credentials of the IT sector and from revolutionising industries to helping the disabled, it is undeniable that the cloud has radically altered our daily lives. Nonetheless, to assume that cloud computing comes without security risks would be both short-sighted and naïve.

Heartbleed, the NSA, WikiLeaks, cybercriminals, and hackers – the list of people who want to exploit your personal information is endless. Sadly complete technological security is difficult to achieve and most users leave their data open to exploitation by making themselves an easy target for the aforementioned groups. Although governments are trying hard to improve the cloud’s security with use of data protection and in-country servers, the reality is that problems will still occur…

Data Centres

We recently looked at reasons why SMEs should do their accounting in the cloud. Although we discovered a number of beneficial reasons, the nature of cloud computing still means that ultimately someone else is looking after your information in an offsite data centre…

Read more from the source @ http://cloudtweaks.com/2014/04/security-dangers-cloud-computing/

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