Portland Oregon Colocation Data Protection - It's Easier Than You Think

Aug. 24, 2012 - PRLog -- Anyone who is considering Portland Oregon Colocation and has been searching for the right Oregon Colocation Provider will be pleased to know that colocation has a big supporter in the Obama Administration.

Over the last few years the Obama Administration has been moving to the cloud to cut back on the Federal Governments IT costs but many network security experts have openly wondered if moving to the cloud, on such a large scale, might compromise the critical data within the Federal Government. The security challenges that the Federal Government faces are the same challenges that any company may face when considering a Portland Oregon Colocation Data Center; to make the lives easier for all of those Oregon network security professionals out there, whose companies are considering moving their servers to the cloud, here are three easy ways to protect data.

Use Cryptography

If you’ve ever tried to decipher cryptography, you know it’s unreadable, this method of data protection will make any form of data not readable unless the reader is able to somehow convert the data back to what it was, before it’s owner used cryptography to protect it.

Find Out Who Protects The Data

The owner of the data must find out who is responsible for protecting their data because, if nobody takes responsibility then the owner must take steps to manually encrypt their data to minimize potential attacks by hackers and limit the effectiveness those hackers might have.

Always Be Proactive With Data Management

Besides encrypting data, the next important element to data protection, that every company who is interested in Portland Oregon Colocation must consider is finding out which people within the company will be having access to that data and then taking proper steps to control any keys that are given out and to limit access to people who have keys.

For more tips on data management or to get the best prices for colocation hosting Portland Oregon, contact Astoudcom and Jeremy Raglin today by phone (503) 894-7496 or by email at Jeremy@astoundcom.com.