With risks revealed, information privacy in the cloud grabs attention
April 4, 2014
Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Laura Aberle.
While cloud computing is the hottest of hot topics, businesses can be lukewarm when it comes to privacy, security and information governance in the cloud. But recent events such as Edward Snowden’s revelations about mass surveillance at the National Security Administration have turned up the heat, according to Else Khoury, the manager of information management services for Niagara Region, a municipal government body in Ontario, Canada. In her AIIM 2014 session "Getting Lost in the Cloud: Privacy Risks and Cloud Computing," she said that privacy has become one of the most buzzed-about issues in information management.
Khoury acknowledged that privacy in the cloud is only one of many challenges discussed at AIIM, but the problems she touched on extend into information governance in the cloud as a whole and to AIIM’s overarching theme of information overload creating chaos but also opportunity…
A new approach to privacy and information governance must cut through the growing risks as organizations’ data moves off-premises, while still giving users the easy access to data in the cloud that they have come to expect…
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