Will Off-Site Data Back-up Be Secure Enough?
The need for a reliable yet secure way to store information on the ever growing internet has prompted the introduction of off-site secure back-up which is currently being offered as part of some security suites like Norton’s 360. The program offers a sizable secure online storage space that can be used to store, say your contacts information or your company’s master list of clients and finances for safekeeping. Considering that threats (malware) comes in troves in today’s wired world, this may be a better option than having to copy all these files and placing them onto dvd’s which are then carried by somebody to a select location for safe keeping.
Remote data storage has long been a necessity and has been called upon many times over when tragedy does strike. Banks and other financial institutions rely on such back-up’s to keep their information safe as well as redundancy features such as mirrored off-site servers that can be called to active duty in case one of the local data centers fails or suffers a major disaster (say a lighting strike on the power grid that zaps all the thousands of data servers), the information in backup may not totally be fresh but it is a starting point that would allow business to continue. The future of back-up may even lie in the cloud where the next generation of of the social web is foreseen to be taking shape.