{"id":22265,"date":"2011-06-28T13:03:39","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T18:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=22265"},"modified":"2011-06-28T13:03:39","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T18:03:39","slug":"ask-leo-is-my-information-safe-in-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/ask-leo-is-my-information-safe-in-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask Leo: Is my information safe in the cloud?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"askleo\"<\/p>\n

By Leo Notenboom<\/p>\n

This is a short question that opens up a veritable Pandora’s box of issues and
\nconsiderations.<\/p>\n

I believe that there’s a lot of misunderstanding about just what information
\nsafety means and how secure your data is and is not when you use cloud-based
\nservices.<\/p>\n

Of course, there’s also a lot of misunderstanding about just what “cloud-based services” even means, so we’ll need to define that a little first.<\/p>\n

The Cloud<\/h3>\n

I’ve talked about cloud computing<\/a> before,
\nbut as a reminder, my definition is really pretty simple:<\/p>\n

The cloud is nothing more than the internet and cloud services are nothing
\nmore than services that you can access over the internet.<\/p>\n

Some examples:<\/p>\n

“When you place information into an online service, you
\nare fundamentally trusting that they know what they’re doing.”<\/div>\n