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Security: The Scary Part of Cloud Computing

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On August 29, 2011 some of us from TechSoup attended NTEN's Nonprofit Cloud Computing Summit in San Francisco. The list of 2011 cloud failures in is impressive. The way to judge a cloud vendor's strength is to read their service level agreement, privacy policy, audit reports, and standard contract.

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Nonprofit Technology News for October 2013

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They plan to do it through policy and regulatory changes. The real bottleneck now is anti-competitive policies that keep prices unaffordable. One little bright spot is that some former Google and NSA engineers have gotten together to launch a free service called Disconnect Search. It has been in use in Europe since 2011.