![]() Department of Health and Human Services, the most common cause of a breach of unsecured protected health information (PHI) – a clear violation of HIPAA – is the loss or theft of a device containing the data. Needless to say, this creates quite a problem if a device containing sensitive or regulated data is lost or stolen, or if data is shared with someone who has no business receiving it. + ALSO ON NETWORK WORLD Dropbox is winning the storage wars, get used to it + And if you share a file with someone else, the data goes onto their devices as well. They don’t just keep a copy of your data in the cloud they also scatter or download a copy of that data to all your devices through synchronization. If you look at services like Dropbox, Box, Gmail, Evernote and numerous others, they all have a similar property. Perhaps the biggest problem resulting from use of such services is the scattering of files. Even if you look at highly regulated industries like healthcare, education, legal and financial services, you’ll see high penetration of consumer-oriented cloud services. Personal email systems and file synchronization and sharing tools have become prevalent in the business world, even if they are not officially sanctioned. The usage numbers have probably gotten higher since because Dropbox claims to have more than 275 million users.ĬIOs and CISOs hate to admit it, but they know employees use Dropbox and other unauthorized cloud services like Gmail to enhance productivity. Toward the end of 2012, the file storage company Nasuni released data indicating one in five employees admits to using Dropbox at work, even if it’s against company policy. The Compliance-as-a-Service vendor Sokasa provides a self-service turnkey encryption and compliance solution to ensure files are encrypted wherever they're placed. Personal email systems and file synchronization and sharing tools like Dropbox and Gmail have become prevalent, but have inherent risks in the business world. ![]()
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