Today’s digital age has led to tremendous breakthroughs in science, technology, and innovation. One innovation in particular, “cloud computing,” or utilizing the Internet for technologies such as online collaboration and data storage, has provided businesses and consumers with a new era of products and services.
While the benefits of these new technologies are clear – accessing data at your fingertips whenever and wherever you want – these benefits also come with challenges. The recent security breaches reported by Google last week once again make this abundantly clear.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brad-smith/cloud-computing-for-busin_b_429466.html
Cloud computing offers many potential benefits, but those benefits will not be realized unless privacy rights are maintained, data security is strengthened, and questions are settled about how data is governed when it crosses national borders. Quite simply, we need responsible action now.
Today’s digital age has led to tremendous breakthroughs in science, technology, and innovation. One innovation in particular, “cloud computing,” or utilizing the Internet for technologies such as online collaboration and data storage, has provided businesses and consumers with a new era of products and services.
While the benefits of these new technologies are clear – accessing data at your fingertips whenever and wherever you want – these benefits also come with challenges. The recent security breaches reported by Google last week once again make this abundantly clear.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/brad-smith/cloud-computing-for-busin_b_429466.html
Cloud computing offers many potential benefits, but those benefits will not be realized unless privacy rights are maintained, data security is strengthened, and questions are settled about how data is governed when it crosses national borders. Quite simply, we need responsible action now.