Do You Know Where Your Data Is In The Cloud?
www.forrester.com/cloudprivacyheatmap
As the specific regulations governing privacy and data protection vary greatly. To help grasp this issue at a high level, Forrester created “Interactive Data Protection Map” that denotes the degree of legal strictness across a range of nations.
It is easy to see by users lose control of their information when they place applications, and their data files, on cloud computers that can be located wherever there is electrical power and internet hookup. Critical and sometimes sensitive information that was once safely stored on local devices computers now resides on the servers of companies who do not necessarily disclose where their servers are located. Cloud Computing Services may mean that both access to the application and data will be at risk by placing both in the hands of a third party. Data hack and intrusion scenarios are not hard to imagine.
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