I’m going to be posting a couple of different blog entries on cloud security. I was in a meeting yesterday and somebody said they felt there is a security issue with hosting HR data in the cloud. I asked them where their existing HR software sits. He showed me a server in the corner of their office. It was accessible to everybody and there were four USB ports staring invitingly out at us. I asked him if he felt this was secure. He wasn’t sure because the IT guy looks after it. The IT guy is the third IT guy they’ve had in as many years. Nobody could tell me what the backup policy is.
At HR Locker we store all of our data in Microsoft’s $500m data centre outside of Dublin. If there’s a power cut there’s battery power and generators that keep the place running for at least 7 days. All data is backed up and replicated in three different instances. There’s full biometric access and entry control to the data center. When a hard drive needs to be thrashed it’s forensically destroyed. Like I said, I’m going to post more on this to give further information.
On balance, I would have no hesitation in going with Microsoft’s half a billion dollar data centre.
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