Everything seems to be about the “cloud” these days. The term “cloud” is really nothing more than a word for describing the Internet. Rather than building a data center and hosting servers internally, server capacity and data storage space can be bought or leased from third-party data centers on the Internet–or “in the cloud”.

Cloud computing provides an array of benefits for companies of all sizes, but it also introduces some new and unique challenges when it comes to data protection. Trusting your data to be stored in the cloud requires extra diligence to ensure it is protected and that any applicable compliance requirements are met.

Protecting Data in the Cloud discusses the benefits of data storage in the cloud, as well as some of the caveats and concerns to be aware of. It also talks about the need to protect your data in the cloud and some solutions to help you.