The advantages of clouds in terms of accelerating business and introducing innovations are so obvious that moving to the clouds is just a matter of time. Today, the largest cloud service providers provide a higher level of security than customers are able to implement in their own data centers. So say 73% of respondents to the Oracle and KPMG Cloud Threat Report 2019 (Oracle and KPMG Cloud Threat Report 2019). However, doubts remain. Among them are concerned about compliance with Russian law, especially regarding personal data (PD). Why cloud security violations occur, is it possible to place PDs in databases abroad, and whether it is necessary to certify a local system for their protection, recognized security experts at the security consultant salary conference and debunked a number of myths.
Incidents such as identity theft of 147 million clients of Equifax credit bureaus or data leak of 14 million clients of one of the largest hosting providers in the world, Hostinger, have attracted increased attention to cloud security. Although the fear of losing data in the cloud is akin to giving up traveling in a car due to a possible accident on the road. Facts confirm that the number of incidents in the clouds is less than that in corporate data centers.
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