When the cloud lacks the security you need, what do you do?

Grazed from SmartCompany. Author: David Markus.

I have been doing public presentations on cloud computing for the past six years and still today the first question people ask is about security of the data stored in the cloud. Will my data be safe from prying eyes? The answer was typically that if you keep your passwords secure your data should be pretty safe. That was before we all learned about the NSA and realised there was no such thing as secure storage in a public system. The big companies with good security advice and plenty of money to spend on options kind of knew that already.

So the answer to the question is in encrypting the data stored in the cloud before it leaves your control and then make sure you hold the encryption keys so that you are the only person or company on the planet that can see the information unless you send it to someone else in a decrypted state…

I recently discovered a company that can do just that. The company is Vaultive*, who operate out of Israel where there is a booming IT economy, as discussed recently by David Thodey CEO of Telstra in his personal blog. This week the security specialist company announced that their encryption tools have enabled the first global bank to migrate to Microsoft Office 365. This is Microsoft’s cloud email and office suite solution that scales from one connection for a micro business to, in this case, tens of thousands of connections…

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