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Online Tech’s Senior Product Architect Steve Aiello continues his data security series of videos on data encryption by dispelling the myth that data is less secure in a well-run data center or in a cloud environment.
Actually – data is more secure with a cloud hosting provider.
Does your office have the appropriate level of physical security in place, including:
Online Tech’s Senior Product Architect Steve Aiello continues his data security series of videos on data encryption by dispelling the myth that data is less secure in a well-run data center or in a cloud environment.
Actually – data is more secure with a cloud hosting provider.
Does your office have the appropriate level of physical security in place, including:
- Biometric authentication – key fobs, pins and fingerprint readers for access to your servers
- Solid, reinforced concrete walls
- Heat and fire suppression sensors
- Additional locks on cabinets
- Visitor logs
Does your limited technical staff have the ability to:
- Ensure your patches are up-to-date
- Expertise to run enterprise antivirus, anti-malware, file integrity monitoring solution with IDS/IPS solution
- Fully redundant, high availability firewall maintenance
- Expertise to implement encryption in storage arrays
- Know-how to harden operating systems
- Ability to alert in case of anomalies
- Set up web application firewalls
- Set up and configure highly mobile VPNs in a cost-effective manner
Comparing the services of cloud service providers to the man-hours and hardware required for a in-house solution, a cloud hosting provider offers more value and expertise at lower costs.
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