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Verify that any online service is secure

I personally don't trust cloud storage, I understand the convenience, but it's not enough for me. Is there any way other than the company saying so, to verify that the storage of my files is indeed encrypted, so that it's safe and secure? Dropbox…
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A term for a policy that forbids employees storing intellectualy property (e.g. Source Code) on hosted third parties services

To be honest, I was not sure if this belongs to this board or Law Stack Exchange. I am searching for a specific term that describes a policy that a company does not allow itself to share its intellectual property with third parties. A example for…
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Way to secure store personal data

This is not for business or corporations, but for personal situations. I rely on gsuite, google drive, google docs, etc.. not that too much 'heavily', but I use it to send most of my business emails, personal and team docs sharing. However, there…
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Is e-mailed cryptic download link considered secure?

An online storage platform allows sharing files with anyone who does not have an account there by sending an https link leading to direct download of the file. The link is e-mailed to invited users. A part of the link is long key, probably random…
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VeraCrypt + WinRAR

My situation: I create containter in VeraCrypt encrypted by AES-Twofish-Serpent with Whirpool. I put my data in here and then I split the container using WinRAR into smaller pieces without compression (for example 2 GB containter into 4 500 Mb…
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How can I store user contacts (address book) with zero knowledge?

I want to provide a user with remote contact list (address book) that they can access and update from arbitrary clients on multiple devices. But I want to have zero knowledge of those contacts. Existing mechanisms (eg XMPP roster, CardDAV) store…
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Proof of data possesion in cloud storage where you cant do calculation to the object stored in the server

I was looking into some papers regarding proof of data possession like this or thisin cloud storage where you can ask for the proof of the data stored in the cloud storage by giving some kind of challenge to the server and server will reply back…
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Is it safer and more secure to buy your own online storage from a hosting service or use major cloud services?

If I want to have a safe, private backup of my most confidential files online, what is the best way to go? Best as in, most secure, offering the highest level of privacy (i.e. being sure my data won't be stored on their servers 'forever' once I have…
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If I backup my files to "The Cloud", will they be kept there forever?

I have a lot of information to backup, this includes accounts passwords, personal files, images and a lot more. So I was thining about backing up everything using a cloud service like Dropbox, Google Drive or OneDrive. My question is: Is this…
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Infecting synchronized devices through the cloud

I have a laptop with Windows installed and iPhone both synchronised to Dropbox. Also I use Google Drive app on my phone and on my laptop I access Drive using browser. Which way of using cloud is more safe? Also I don't have as strong security on my…
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How do I keep the PDF files in OneDrive secure?

I need to store multiple PDF files with sensitive information in OneDrive (consumer, not business version). However I am worried about the security risks in doing so. I could secure the PDFs with a strong password with AES256, but given the scenario…
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Is Google Drive For Business considered non-public storage?

I recently did some contracting work for a small company that stored business files in Google Drive for Business. Their client (Georgia Power) has a policy that says that all such information is "critical" and must be stored on a "non-public…
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What is estiamted risk of corrupt public officials accessing survivelance and cloud data in UK?

If company Trade Inc setups cloud email and cloud server and also uses mobiles and business broadband, if the owner of the competing company let's say RougeTrade Inc. has friends in UK police, he may get to know what Trade Inc is doing for…
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Can Google's employee or Microsoft employee see the files in the cloud?

I want to know if someone working at these companies has access to the files people upload to the cloud. In other words, do these companies encrypt the files in the cloud?
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How to configure CDN GCP bucket access privileges

We use GCP Cloud Storage and Cloud CDN to deliver some static assets (html/css/js/.jpg/.png). The buckets used to store those are public with anonymous access (i.e. allUsers in GCP terms). On one hand Cloud CDN documentation seems to encourage this,…
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