FAQ

Making relevant and smart choices of cloud solutions, with regard to reliability, security and QoS can rapidly become a real obstacle course.

For instance, giving your data to a cloud provider, does that specify where the (virtualized) data is physically stored? What legal framework applies to the data, and how to retrieve or delete data, or switch from provider when the service is no longer up to par? Of course, you can use existing marketplaces, cloud brokering and benchmarking platforms to find cloud solutions and services at your fingertips, but any of them is really a good option.

These platforms are basically highlighting cloud offers into a lock-in technological with no business and security guarantees.

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Shadow IT also known as Stealth IT is defined as IT systems and solutions built and/or used inside organizations without explicit organizational approval. With the explosion of Cloud solutions, end users and employees can easily deploys apps without the IT team knowledge, with the risk to introduce new security breaches into the company or by implying higher costs for IT rationalization

Many recommendations across the 'Net sound like this: "Don't keep your information on the cloud." Fair enough, but it's the same as if you asked, "How not to get my house burned down?" and the answer would be, "Do not have a house." The logic is solid, but a better way to translate such advice is, "avoid storing sensitive information on the cloud." So if you have a choice you should opt for keeping your crucial information away from virtual world or use appropriate solutions.Encryption is, so far, the best way you can protect your data. Generally encryption works as follows: You have a file you want to move to a cloud, you use certain software with which you create a password for that file, you move that password-protected file to the cloud and no one is ever able to see the content of the file not knowing the password. There are some cloud services that provide local encryption and decryption of your files in addition to storage and backup. When choosing the best way of protecting your information keep in mind how valuable that information is to you and to what extent it is reasonable to protect it. Therefore, the first thing you should do is to define the level of privacy you need and thus a level of protection for it. So try to strike that delicate balance between the required level of protection and the time/effort/money spent on it.

When business are granted their Cloud provider a high degree of control over their business data, they takes majors risk over their data integrity and data breaches.The biggest financial consequence to organizations that experienced a data breach is lost business. Following a data breach, organizations need to take steps to retain customers’ trust to reduce the long-term financial impact.