Confidentiality of Remote Backup
published by 2014-06-13
topic: Backup
According to some interviews conducted by The Growth Coach Ecuador on Remote Backup and Cloud Backup services with people in the Internet Services field and managers of other companies, one of the most common concerns of these people about the possibility of proliferation of these services in the country is the confidentiality of information when it's in the cloud.
There are answers that equate the concept of confidentiality of cloud services in general to the concept of specific remote backup services and that seems to be a mistake that needs to be corrected.
When you contract a dedicated server in a remote Data Center, we know exactly what we're putting on that server and are well aware of the kind of protections that it has, the control of access to the Data Center's maintenance services of the server and how we store information on it, i.e., if we encrypt it or the applications use open data.
When you contract a cloud service, we can all find out about the properties of the service and how it manages and maintains information on the storage discs that is handled with that service.
The reluctance of any company is truly understandable when placing sensitive data in any of these scenarios.
However, it's necessary to understand that in general, Remote Backup applications systematically encrypt all the information they handle with practically inviolable passwords, which only the client or client system know, so the information is illegible without the knowledge of the encoding keys. Even the very name of the files appears encrypted. This way, only the person or the system that knows the keys can read any of the backup's contents even if they have physical access to it.