The Cloud is everywhere. What does "A Cloud" really mean?
It usually means that your information is stored in bits and pieces many different places on earth. Is this information secure? No. It is not secure in two or more different ways. First it is not secure because if any of the servers go down say because of a hurricane in Florida or Puerto Rico all your information might be gone. You might say, "Oh. I live in California or Hawaii that shouldn't be a problem. However, if someone had cheap storage space in Florida or Puerto Rico running their mainframes and storing your info there then it might have been lost during Harvey, Irma, Jose or Maria or could be lost during Nate when that one hits New Orleans and the Gulf coast. Whenever power goes down it might mean that there might be no backup generator or that the fuel tank in the backup generator is rusted and leaked the fuel out and no one noticed. I wonder how much Cloud data has already been lost during the last Hurricanes in addition to the 33,000 jobs lost as well?
If you want data secure you put it in an external hard drive that you keep at home and never expose directly to the Internet ever or you put it on DVDs from a device that is never exposed to the Internet ever.
You don't put it in the Cloud.
However, I have an old 2009 Macbook pro and I recently realized I might lose 5,000 digital photos I have taken since 2009 in paris and realized I should put them in the cloud in case the 2009 loses charge and I forget to recharge it for too long because I now have a new Macbook pro.
But, if you have really sensitive business data that you don't want a competitor to steal, the cloud might not be where you want to store it because anyone can hack into the cloud if they know what to ask for if they are any good at hacking.
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