All the leading cloud services come with the promise of keeping your data safe. However, the recent attacks on online data by government have made it clear that there is a need for high level of security in the cloud to protect your data against not only government but also against others including hackers and private institutions.
There are many cloud storage solutions, the terms for ensuring safety are almost the same. You have Google Drive, Dropbox and now SpiderOak, all of which are claiming to offer highly secure cloud solutions.Some of the services ensure 100% privacy with the focus on security and discretion. It is important to choose a service that could ensure that just because your data is stored online doesn’t mean that it couldn’t be considered as private, which the government has not been considering.
The best cloud storage solutions encrypt all your data and maintain a “zero knowledge” policy. They claim that they don’t know anything about your stored data (including the file and folder names). They see only the sequential numbers of the encrypted data folders on their server.
Some services have gone to the extent of not even storing user passwords. This means that if you lose your login and password information, the data will be lost for ever.
This level of sophistication and privacy standards in security in the cloud is claimed to help protect your data against everyone including the government hackers and even the system admins. Check all the features of a solutions provider and their terms and conditions before choosing any service.
Google Drive and many other online storage solutions have been proven to be vulnerable to government intrusion. So make sure to choose your online storage solution with care – the above-guidelines seem to be providing something of the perfect solution.
