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Old 05-03-2012, 09:21 PM  
raymor
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Encrypting the files properly before they leave your office is critical, I think. Assuming that's done, it sounds like a giod idea to have offsite copies. Having it encrypted by the cloud provider is actually very nearly worthless. It's good marketing, but doesn't actually effect security in a meaningful way because if the provider can encrypt and decrypt the files, the bad guy on their system can use that decrypt function, generally. They can also intercept the files just before they are encrypted, just after they are decrypted, or worse secretly turn off encryption. So encrypt the files prperly, THEN upload them.
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