05/12/2014 Billy Lyle
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In the light of the Snowden revelations of the last 18 months, many businesses have started to feel that the onward rush into all things ‘cloud’ may prove to be somewhat premature. This uneasiness may have been further compounded in some people’s minds by a couple of unexpected crashes of both the web and even Microsoft’s core Azure cloud service this past summer. At the same time, there are the seemingly endless high-profile stories of prominent websites and services being attacked, sometimes successfully, by hackers.
There was a genuine sense of shock in many quarters, as well, when celebrities’ very personal data was stolen from Apple’s iCloud service. Popular web-based email services like Gmail have also been accused of being too porous and open to prying eyes, forcing companies to step in and impose security patches. Clearly, if you feel that putting your personal data out into cyberspace is riskier than you might like, putting your customer data – let alone your company accounts! – into the cloud may start to seem genuinely dangerous.
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