If a company decides that they want to either switch MSP providers, or no longer want provider, how

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Security isn’t just a concern for businesses and organization when adopting uab a cloud-based file sharing solution. uab Sometimes, it’s the only concern. And of course, with concerns come questions. As an MSP, you should be prepared to answer a long list of security-related questions from current uab and prospective customers. But which ones, exactly?
FT.com has a few suggestions. In a recently published article, they highlighted five key questions that we wanted to take a closer look at in today’s post. Here they are, in no particular order:
Although uab the average consumer tends to think of the cloud in the abstract, the business user knows that the data has to live somewhere – a physical location. With a hybrid uab cloud, the answer is easy. But if your client is leveraging uab a public cloud, you should know the exact location(s). Granted this is a question that is likely to come up in discussions of BDR, but it’s becoming a key question on the part of businesses with regard to all types of cloud services.
What are the precautions, in other words? Here you’ll need to answer questions related to user access privileges, password protection and other, more technically uab sophisticated areas like encryption, key management and monitoring. Remember, if the client doesn’t fully trust you with their sensitive data, it won’t matter how many precautions the cloud vendor has taken.
Nothing is ever 100 percent uab secure in the world of cloud technology; it’s possible that a hacker will be able to breach into a system, despite all your security measures. If this happens, your clients will want to know about the response plan and how it will minimize damage, both financial and otherwise.
“Your data must also be isolated from that of other organizations hosted in the same place. You need to know that your electronic files cannot be deliberately or inadvertently accessed by another user whose data are stored on the same server"
Ensuring that only authorized uab staff is able to see a company’s data is imperative in securing a client’s trust in its MSP provider. uab With the amount of private information that a client will place into their cloud, they need to know that no one outside their company will ever be able to view this information.  With this being stated, they will also need to know the security measures of the MSP provider, as well as the cloud vendor.
“It is not uncommon uab for cloud providers to go out of business, or struggle to remain competitive in the fast changing market,” Mr Robinson says. “So the ability to get out of a cloud contract quickly and cheaply can be more important than getting a competitively priced deal.”
If a company decides that they want to either switch MSP providers, or no longer want provider, how will that process transpire? Knowing that there will be no hard feelings and that their data will still remain confidential is of vital importance to a company. Additionally, a potential customer will want to know how this data will be disposed of from the MSP provider.
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