The breakthrough of Cloud Computing raises many legitimate issues in the field of computing security. So, how to trust the Cloud? And how to choose a reliable provider before things go wrong?
Providers whose services are not secure and which do not deal with security should quickly disappear. However for now, unsecured services still exist so that you have to be careful when you choose your cloud service. Indeed, using Cloud Computing, your data is hosted by the provider. This represents a risk at 2 levels : firstly, the risk of losing your data and secondly, the risk to unveil it to a third part. Actually, when you subscribe, you must have a written guarantee that your data will be entirely protected and will not be transmitted to anyone. This is precisely which is guaranteed by TIO Libre association's members. Finally, let's remind that the most significant data losses are related to stolen laptops, misappropriated emails or sent in error, improperly secured offices, unchanged passwords. In short, one can easily argue that if the data is stored by a third, the "cloud", this is a security insurance. This is exactly the principle of the bank in everyday life. Cloud computing and SaaS are changing computing. In order to choose a better provider, the question is now: how cloud computing brings to reformulate differently security issues... for more security in fine.
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