Secure Cloud Services in the Office

It depends on you if the cloud services that you use are safe. If you use software-as-a-service providers such as Salesforce.com, Office 365 or Dropbox to store your documents in the cloud, those companies take a certain amount of responsibility for the security of the data they maintain on your behalf. They are not responsible for how you choose who can access the data. You need to choose a cloud service that provides data protection both in transit and when data is at rest—including during backups. Make sure to ask your provider if they have had any past or recent breaches, and if they have, what they did to avoid a repeat. Lastly, know that your biggest threat may be from a malicious or disgruntled employee who is hellbent on stealing confidential or sensitive data and using the information against you. Your own in-house security and user account login and password management need to be tight and you need to know exactly who has access to what.