Summary

Cloud services are commonplace today. They offer a wealth of benefits, cost-effectively providing high availability and rapid capacity customization at low prices.

Your Authority or institution carefully selects cloud services and actively cares about data security.

If you entrust your private data to third parties, you should check whether the access options of the providers* or others are excluded or at least not harmful. If in doubt, it is better to store the data at home so that only you have access to it.

Good to know

What is your data worth?

As with social media, the price you pay for free services is your data itself or your usage behavior. Weigh this against (supposedly) cheap offers.

  • Encrypt your cloud data if possible!
  • Keep copies at home!
  • When in doubt: don’t put the file in the cloud.