Even if they clear it out who is going to deal with the security, bot parties will still be involved. Either's mistake can be result in the data breach.
Michael makes an important point. I've seen reports which suggest that both vendors and clients think the other party is dealing with security. It needs to be spelled out.
"Employees are forbidden from using consumer cloud services like Dropbox and Gmail for work purposes. "
That makes real sense. If companies are not able to provide the security level requiered by those cloud services, I think it is better to take preventive actions to avoid getting into costly security management processes.
"Hope and belief have no place in the business world"
You get what pay for. But sometimes you can't get things to work the way you will like to, and then you hope that nothing will come to disrupt or challenge them.
Many companies are banning BYOC -- Bring Your Own Cloud. Employees are forbidden from using consumer cloud services like Dropbox and Gmail for work purposes.
As a devoted user of both those services, I can see obstacles to that kind of policy. And yet it makes sense from an enterprise security standpoint, particularly in regulated industries.
Securing data is easier said than done. Depending on cloud companies to protect data forever without changing terms or service regularly is a risky bet. And where 'greed' comes into the picture, which it surely will at some point, it's not going to be easy to depend on absolute security.
We can only try to guess the risk/reward when entering and storing critical information and cross our fingers!
Well that's very true and realistic. We can't expect from corporate sector to safeguard people interests when its comes to business. There is a cut throat and ruthless competetion out there. I think we can't expect users to remain very disciplined in security data for the sake of others. There are so many nasty elements on the prowl ...who are ready to exploit someone's personal information. It is primarily the responsibility of service providers to secure data and ensure secrecy of personal information. A mechanism is required to be devised to make service providers responsible for the security of data. Unless they are not accountable in this regard...none of them would take up the responsibility to serve their customers.
"We hope the organization collecting and storing our information has strong data-handling procedures, access controls, and proactive measures against hackers. And, for the most part, I believe that to be true of both established entities and emerging providers."
Hope and belief have no place in the business world. It is not that difficult to contract in what you require.
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