Are the customers ready to trust a service provider to store their private data?

Individual home users have very less information that has to be secured but what about the advertisement based on the users data. Where is the user’s privacy? Should the user buy privacy?

As a corporate do we wish to store the company specific information in a server where we have no control? What about the NDA's? What if my data is sold/stolen without my knowledge?

Is it really worth the ROI?

Individual users have very less sensitive data and there seems no big benefit of accessing information where ever the users goes other than the mail box.

But as a corporate yes there is a huge benefit in terms of the principal equipment cost, support and maintenance charges for software as a utility rather than an investment in capital assets. Think about the amount of laptops that are lost every year and the security risk involved with the stolen laptops or any other thick clients. The boon of accessing information from anywhere without any additional cost and infrastructure is very attractive for a global business.

Being security experts we wish to organize all the data in one place and secure that place tightly rather than securing each and every thick client.

 Some ways to overcome these problems

·         Ensure more transparency between the cloud service providers and cloud consumer.

·         Have better SLA’s and clear security policies, privacy policies and Data ownership policies.

·         The provider should have both physical and logical security infrastructures.

·         Trusted third party’s to overlook the cloud service providers activity and compliance.