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by John W. Simek, Vice President of Sensei Enterprises, Inc.

5 Simple Questions to Ask Cloud Providers

May 9, 2016

Let there be no mistake about it. Businesses are moving to the cloud. It is no longer if you will move to the cloud, but how much of your data and applications will be there. Smaller businesses can potentially have better security and data availability when moving to the cloud. No matter what survey you read, it seems that cloud security is always at the top of everyone's list. Not to worry. Dark Reading has listed five questions that every SMB should be asking about cloud services.

  1. What data encryption services are available?
  2. Who is responsible for securing different aspects of the cloud service?
  3. How is the least privileged best practice applied to reducing who has access?
  4. What about penetration testing and certifications?
  5. Does the cloud service provider offer consumption-based pricing?

These questions are a good start, but I would also want to know where my data is being stored (U.S. or other country), who owns the data, is there a fee to get my data back and what happens if law enforcement or the government wants to access my data?

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