Encryption and cloud computing

ronjor · May 31, 2013

By Bill Hackenberger

There is a common misperception about cloud computing. It’s the belief that your information in the cloud is cared for by your cloud service provider, no worries.

News flash—your data in the cloud is your responsibility, no matter what the cloud provider does or says. If a data breach occurs, you will bear all of the consequences, positive and negative.

It’s not just hackers who are the problem. We’re human, and humans make mistakes. Amazon’s cloud storage customers recently learned this painful truth when a security testing firm discovered more than 126 billion data files had been exposed because users were unclear about privacy settings.
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aztony · May 31, 2013

The only data I have stored in the cloud are my passwords, which are encypted thru my password manager. I do have the option of storing the data locally to the PC, only, by disabling the sync feature, which syncs all of my devices when a change is made to one. I may end up just storing to PC.

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