14 DAY TRIAL // One of the biggest concerns that emerge when it comes to cloud computing is privacy, and the latest installment of the Cloud Fundamentals Video series is meant to offers some info on the matter.
Microsoft has been long committed to deliver increased privacy features to its customers, regardless of the service or product they want to use.
Organizations are also interested in the way they can manage information and how they interact with their cloud service providers when choosing to adopt cloud computing technologies.
“Cloud computing is a top of mind issue for many customers, and privacy issues are among some of our customers biggest concerns,” Tim Rains, director, Trustworthy Computing, notes in a recent blog post.
“Protecting privacy is part of Microsoft’s long-term commitment to Trustworthy Computing, and we strive to build privacy protections into all of our products and services.”
As Rains notes, one of the main differentiations between the traditional information technology model and the cloud computing approach is the fact that information is managed by cloud providers.
With data no longer in the hands of the organization, its protection isn’t the company’s IT administrators’ responsibility anymore. Thus, the manner in which the company uses personal information or how it protects data on its own computers is only a part of the overall picture.
“Defining the allocation of responsibilities and obligations for security and privacy between cloud customers and cloud providers—and creating sufficient transparency about the allocation—is a new challenge,” Rains notes.
In the latest video included in the aforementioned Trustworthy Computing Cloud Fundamentals Video Series, he discusses what privacy means for companies with Brendon Lynch, Microsoft’s chief privacy officer.
You can see the video embedded below, to hear Brendon explaining three tenets of Microsoft’s approach to cloud computing privacy, which are responsibility, transparency, and choice.