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Hacked accounts make cloud services vulnerable. Back them up if they contain sufficient value to you. Also, encryption options |
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- http://www.businessinsider.com/professor-suffers-dropbox-nightmare-2013-9* College Professor states, "I Lost Tons Of Critical Files Because Of Dropbox"
Or, you do something you didn't intend to do, resulting in loss of data.
Services ChemIT has heard of, or in some cases have personally used
Backing up Google services
There are a number of services which promise to regularly back up your Google docs (Drive), email, calendars, and contacts. We're sure none are panaceas. However, they do seem to represent reasonable protection for restoring a hacked (and subsequently blank-slated!) account. You may also value being able to recover an individual item mistakenly delete. (Seems easy to restore specific docs and emails, for example.)
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Backing up DropBox.com and the like
Here are some promising, but untested-by-ChemIT, tools and services:
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- I means scalable in terms of cost, administrative overhead, technology infrastructure and skills, etc.
http://aegeusit.com/aegeus/solutions/secure-the-cloud/
They claim: Use Envault Cloud Protection (ECP) to extend Dropbox by transparently adding the following:
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