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2021年6月2日星期三

Is Your Data Safe on Cloud Services And How Much Cloud Storage Do You Really Need?

As the world becomes more digitized, a lot of our personal information is compromised on our hard drives, simply because it’s not as hard as you think for a hacker to access a WiFi account. This is why in all likelihood you or someone you know has had their personal information stolen. Cloud data platforms offer an extra level of security, but as we saw in the fappening scandal and others, concerns about cloud security are not some paranoid delusion.

Luckily, the major cloud services take this threat seriously, and cybersecurity is one of the fastest growing fields in the tech world. Cybersecurity services will be a $192.7bn business in 7 years time according to a new report from Grand View Research. he multibillion dollar (sometimes trillion dollar like Apple and Google) businesses building cloud platforms are doing everything in their power to stay steps ahead of the hackers. They do this by spending billions independently and with the help of burgeoning cybersecurity firms like Checkpoint Software Technologies. This means our data is safer than it ever has been, when you use one of the major cloud platforms like iCloud, Google Drive or Dropbox.

According to Jotform, “Both Google Drive and Dropbox offer two-factor authentication and encrypt your data when it’s in transit — from the cloud storage service to your device, and vice versa. However, Dropbox uses a stronger version of encryption to keep your files safe when they’re being stored — Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) 256-bit encryption. The U.S. National Security Agency has approved this encryption standard to protect information that has been classified top secret.”

So if you want to store precious documents and a few choice photos, Dropbox isn’t any less safe than an external hard drive. You’re getting the same level of security as the NSA. So worries about that embarrassing photo getting leaked to your friends and coworkers should be a thing of the past.

And unless you’re saving huge applications (why would you even need to do that?), video files and huge libraries of photos, the free options on the market will do everything to suit your needs.

New subscribers to Dropbox are given 2 gb of free cloud storage for eternity. Beyond that, while Google and the iCloud are both very good services compared to what we thought of the cloud just five years ago when every celebrity and their mother was hacked in quite compromising positions, Dropbox is clearly head and shoulders above the rest.

Dropbox features an incredibly easy to use interface. Its syncing speeds even balk at Google. Files are constantly and easily accessible through Dropbox’s website, Windows, Mac and Linux, as well as iOS and Android. Moreover, as Dropbox began as a compression service, you will never get those irritating messages that your file size is too big to share. So for collaboration, Dropbox is simply a breeze, with free ultra-secure storage at your fingertips. For the average consumer 2gb should suit your needs but for ten dollars a month you can multiply that by a factor of a thousand and receive 2 terabytes and sit rest assured no one will ever find those honeymoon pictures or social security numbers.

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