30 Days With the Cloud: Day 20

It seems like a week doesn’t go by without some sort of data breach incident. As I venture through the 30 Days With the Cloud journey, it occurs to me that I am placing an awful lot of faith in third parties to keep my data protected. So, the inevitable question becomes, “can I trust my data in the cloud?”

If I am going to keep gigabytes upon gigabytes of sensitive data stored online, I need some assurances that it is safe. The data needs to be secured, preferably encrypted, so that it is protected even in the event that the storage that contains it is compromised. But, even encrypting data can be tricky when it comes to third party cloud storage providers.