Dangerous cloud – and how to stay safe
IT outsourcing to external data centres (cloud services) makes companies a lot more flexible and saves them time and money. Increasingly, however, companies are coming to recognize the risks of data clouding and therefore want to protect their data as well as possible. Good to know, then, that there is a safe way to use the cloud.
Be it filesharing via dropbox, SaaS systems for customer relationship management or the exclusive use of external IT: all online services deposit confidential corporate data on the World Wide Web. Once there, those data can quickly fall into the wrong hands.
For each and every online application, companies should systematically seek security against data theft. The first step is to carefully analyse the involved business processes with regard to the possible consequences of data abuse. The question of which cloud services can be utilized by which units and which kind of data is too sensitive...
