Tag: Microsoft
U S Patriot Act Dampens Microsoft Cloud Services
Organisations should be wary when entrusting their data to Cloud providers based in the U.S. Microsoft, one of the first Cloud providers to come clean, have revealed that the U.S. authorities have the right to access any data stored by them, even if that data resides within the EU. This isn’t the first time that the U.S. Patriot Act has come under fire. After the Act was passed 2001 because …
Microsoft reports data loss dip in 2010
A new study from software giant Microsoft, has found that the number of data loss incidents which have occurred in 2010 is considerably lower than those registered in 2009. This suggests that businesses and organisations are gradually reducing their chances of becoming the victims of scandalous security breaches or the misplacement of private information. In the Microsoft Security Intelligence Report (MSIR), a small section was dedicated to data loss. Figures …
