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Data in the Cloud
The cloud is everywhere, raining down apps and digital services on companies. The potential benefits are clear: more storage and portability of company information and customer data, as well as time and cost savings for management and employees.
But do businesses that use the cloud know if important data is safe up there? There are several steps that companies can take in order to make sure they are protecting their confidential data ' and minimizing liability ' in the event of a cloud-based data breach.
Gytis Barzdukas, senior director of project management at cloud storage provider Mozy, part of EMC Corporation, said that in the fight against data breaches, the cloud is not the enemy. “How secure your data is has nothing to do with whether it's in the cloud or not,” said Barzdukas. “It has everything to do with how and where it's stored. Data needs to be encrypted, distributed and redundant.”
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