Cloud computing has been on a meteoric rise in recent years. And considering its benefits, that trend makes a lot of sense. Remote access to your data, fewer worries about data loss and low costs due to economies of scale in server space certainly sounds enticing. But, as multiple crises in 2014 shows, it also comes with significant risks, and these risks just may make you wish you had data crushers on hand.
Perhaps the most notorious cloud-related crisis in 2014 was the iCloud hack. It ended in the exposure of nude celebrity photos and brought to mind serious questions about the security dangers of cloud computing. As the International Business Times phrased it,
For businesses, whether to adopt cloud services is a question of risk management. Just how much risk are you willing to undertake?
How much risk, indeed? Knowing that hacking entered the national conversation more than ever before in 2014, how comfortable are you in your cloud computing provider’s security, a security you have no direct control over?
It’s a question every business has to ask themselves as they decide whether they want to store their data locally or remotely. Here’s one significant advantage of storing data on your own servers: the existence of data crushers. We’ve all heard that data is never truly lost even on apparently destroyed hard drive, but that isn’t quite true. Hard drive data crushers drill specifically through the drive’s spindles to make data recovery impossible.
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That’s simply not possible for the cloud right now; erasing sensitive data, even once you don’t need it anymore, just never seems to be final. A remotely stored, cached version will always exist. It will be potentially available to hackers if not now, then in the near future. Data crushers offer you the security you crave and the piece of mind to know that your sensitive data will always stay out of the hands of the public and competitors. To learn more about the many benefits of data crushers for your business, contact us today.
