We can believe that the cloud is a clear and perfect target for the famous "hackers" but is the risk of storing the data in the cloud greater than when we have control over the data in traditional private storage?Control DOESN'T mean greater security.

Having "control" of our information, keeping it on our local server, does not imply greater security, traditional storage being a favorite target for hackers versus cloud.

As we have seen in another post (Is the Cloud safe to store your company's data?), The capacity, knowledge, experience and resources available to the providers of these services against cybersecurity, make it a much more service Safe to store the data of our companies.

Traditional storage is ideal for hackers since they do not have adequate security, they can access the company's data more quickly and easily; By having a provider of "the cloud" that has the necessary security to avoid these threats, we can be sure that our data is guarded 24/7.

Choosing the best cloud service provider

Here are some keys to determine the advantages of each provider of cloud services in the market and select the one that provides the most effectiveness in terms of the security you need.

You must inform yourself of:

• The security policies of the provider and its dependencies with third parties.
• The point of contact for security incidents.
• What are the security tasks that the provider will perform and those that we will perform personally.
• Contractual obligations, financial compensation for losses.
• The disaster recovery and business continuity plans of the provider
• Backups, fault tolerance and recovery times.
• Redundancy of their data centers, where they are located, what are their physical and logical access control measures.
• Compliance with good practice criteria.
• Reports of vulnerability scans.
• Patching and updating procedures.
• National legislation that applies.