The migration to the cloud away from local or standard storage services is a good way to minimize cost as well as increase availability of data to your office or sales team. As we move into a cloud computing model and away from traditional storage, security becomes a bigger concern.

At this time, most CTO|CIOs are not as concerned with cloud security. Most of the users of cloud services such as Yahoo, gmail, facebook, or twitter have no real understanding of security needs. The real truth is there is company data sitting out there publicly on these services that can easily be searched and sourced and be made public.

Cases are now pending against some of these services for company proprietary information being shared on the the public domain either on purpose or inadvertently. The real issue is most security chiefs have no idea where to begin to look for this data as it is personalized by accounts.

The best case is to only publicly store data that you would not be concerned about being made public. These cloud services constantly search across your stored data, pictures, music, etc to help them target advertising directed from your content. This can become a real privacy concern as corporate data begins to reside publicly.

Best case is to work with your IT team or technology partner to set up a data storage location in the cloud with secure access as this is the closest to security you have available at this time. I am currently working with a possible solution to secure data remotely stored and I hope to have some exciting news in the coming weeks.

Until then please mind your public storage even though it is a very attractive option your data is not secure at this time.

Have a great week!

Thanks
Abel