Cloud-Based Storage of Secured Info Increasing
According to a survey conducted by the Ponemon Institute and Thales e-Security, using cloud-based data storage for secure info is nearly becoming the norm. Approximately half of the respondents from this survey of 4000 IT pros in seven countries stated that they do use cloud storage for their sensitive data. This approach has several pros and cons - in the positive there is the fact that data storage space is not a local necessity and maintenance is performed off-site as well; however, in the negative secure data is typically something which is encrypted and that requires encryption keys which means said keys lie in several hands. Therefore, in order for someone to use cloud-based encryption one must trust the encrypting entity completely meaning that it is imperative to only use completely proven and trustworthy vendors for any cloud-based encryption services.