[GTALUG] Question

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 02:30:06PM -0500, Dhaval Giani via talk wrote:
> I feel obligated to point out here that it is more often the case that
> a cloud provider is more secure than a standalone solution. If only
> because they can afford to spend more on hiring people to work on
> security full time.

And you have to take their word for it that they did that.

If they did not and loose it all, or decide to shut down the company
suddenly, how do you get the accounting data that you are almost certainly
legally required to keep for a number of years?

So is the cloud service safer than what lots of companies do themselves?
Sure.  Is it safer than doing it right?  Almost certainly not.

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Len Sorensen