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How To Secure Your Mixed-Cloud Environment

2/28/2013

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How To Secure Your Mixed-Cloud Environment


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Although the majority of cloud providers have stringent security measures in place to safeguard data and help prevent data loss, some law firms are just not ready to store their most sensitive data in the cloud yet. They want to store most of their data in the cloud but keep the sensitive data stored locally, so they end up in a mixed-cloud environment. This can create a serious headache for IT, but with the correct policies in place, it can stay organized and better executed.

The idea behind mixed-cloud environments is okay, as long as there is a good backup plan in place for the sensitive data that is stored locally. A fire, flood, server drive corruption, or malicious deletion or theft by a disgruntled employee can result in sensitive data being destroyed or released publicly.


Create policies to monitor and manage data flow

The data flow, storage, and security must be monitored at all times- where is your data? Who is handling it? Who has access to it? Which data is too sensitive to send to the cloud? Policies must be implemented for strict control and these policies should be based on authentication and data classification. Checklists can be created which are comprised of security requirements that need to be in place. More policies will have to be created to cover the use of mobile devices, and which data can be accessed via these devices.

By keeping the not-so-sensitive data securely stored in the cloud, and keeping sensitive company data stored on local servers, law firms can still handle most of their business in the cloud, thus increasing time management and project management, while keeping the most sensitive data secured away on local servers. Not everyone is ready to completely move everything to the cloud yet, and a mixed-cloud environment may be a good starting point. Keeping the data secure should be the number one priority

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Susan Bilder link
3/25/2013 07:53:23 am

Sensitive data security is essential. Cloud security is improving. It's likely that these mixed-cloud environments will eventually be a thing of the past.

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