SaaS Security: How to Handle Sensitive Data

It costs around two cents per gigabyte per month to store data in the cloud today. But the cost of losing that data is around $150 per record, which means that you’re looking at a cost of $150,000 per gigabyte of customer data that’s compromised — more if your records are smaller than 1MB, which is likely.

For companies that store huge amounts of contact information, uploaded files, chat histories, and other personal data, a breach can be catastrophic.

So how can application developers ensure that personal data is well protected? And in doing so, how can they demonstrate to their customers that they’re doing the right thing (vs. those lazy competitors who take all the shortcuts)?

Keep reading my latest blog. SaaS Security: How to Handle Sensitive Data and sign up below for our upcoming webinar on a similar topic.

Register for our upcoming webinar: How to Handle Sensitive Data in Amazon S3 (Without Getting Bitten in The Ass)

Until next month,

Patrick Walsh
CEO, IronCore Labs

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