Strategies for Managing Data Privacy and Security in the Age of Cloud Computing

Grazed from Acumatica. Author: Editorial Staff.

As a provider of Cloud ERP (enterprise resource planning), Acumatica is acutely aware of many of the concerns that customers have when it comes to utilizing an external provider for hosting and data storage. In fact, because Acumatica was built from the ground up to exist in a hosted environment in the cloud, the solution was architected with security in mind.

Any browser-based application must utilize strong data encryption techniques to ensure the safety of all data between the client browser and the server-based data store. It is the most fundamental step, and naturally that’s the first step that you need to validate. Ensuring that at least 2048-bit SSL encryption is used in any session based browser application is key…

But there are more issues to consider when thinking about data security and data privacy, many of which simply come down to best practices in data handling. This is particularly true when looking at the weakest link in any information exchange involving human interaction: the people dimension…

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