Cloud Data Loss is Real! 1
At CloudSlam’14, it has been presented that 1 of 3 companies experience data loss from their cloud providers. That’s 1/3rd of them!
- 64% is due to user error – we are our own worst enemy!
- 20% is due to malicious intent. Hackers, sometimes insiders are just being mean.
- 7% is due to application sync errors. These are integration providers that hook into other SaaS apps.
It was also reported that Shadow IT has been happening, usually to avoid the rules set forth by IT designed to protect the company. More and more corporate data is being stored outside approved IT systems whether we like it or not.
Definitely contact legal counsel concerning storing corporate data in other jurisdictions.
I don’t have any issue with using external providers for storing company data, provided they can assure, with penalties if they don’t, that the data will be secure and as safe as on professionally managed IT systems running inside a corporate data center. None of the cloud providers I’ve tried can (or will) sign a contract like that for a competitive price. Our data is mixed with the data of our competition, often inside the same DB!
How do you mitigate these issues for your cloud data?
I’ve wondered since the beginnings of Dropbox (and of course many more now) if this requires new security knowledge to combat that 20% “due to malicious intent” or if folks already into data security just have more on their plate?
I was naive to how open-minded people are with relying on others to safeguard and not lose their data. I wonder if the absence of your question posed regarding mitigation of this issue is because it rarely is considered.
The whole cloud storage and computing is beyond my knowledge, but I sure wish I considered learning it early on because it seems the technology is being relied on more and more by small and large companies.