You may be skeptical about entrusting your data to the cloud, especially if you’re already worried about staying compliant. What you don’t know is that the cloud could make it easier for you to stay compliant than ever before.
Like any new technology, the cloud can be a scary prospect for businesses that are accustomed to a more traditional IT environment. This is especially true of businesses that have to maintain compliance with strict industry regulations. They don’t feel confident about trusting their business data to a third-party cloud provider when one slip up could result in costly fines for noncompliance.
Because of this fear, many businesses miss out on the range of benefits that the cloud has to offer. Here’s the thing, though – the cloud can actually help your business stay compliant, because it makes it easy to adopt and implement new practices and policies when needed. The cloud offers an unbeatable level of flexibility and collaboration that you need in order to keep your operations running smoothly.
The fact is that as technology changes, so does your industry and the regulations that govern it. Whether you have to stay compliant with PCI, HIPAA, or another set of strict regulations, they will continue to adapt to the modern business world, which means you’ll have to keep up as well. This is where the cloud comes in handy. Instead of having to constantly invest in new technologies and make drastic changes to your business to stay compliant, the cloud can give your business the flexibility it needs to easily stay compliant as the business world changes.
Adopting and implementing new cybersecurity practices and data storage policies is easy to do with the cloud. Even better, with the right cloud provider, you can benefit from their experience with compliance as well. By hosting your data in a well-managed and maintained data center, you actually shift the effort of compliance in part to your provider, which only makes life easier for you and your staff.
Furthermore, as more and more of your day-to-day operations depend on a growing range of line of business software and applications that need to properly integrate in order to be effective, it will only become more difficult to keep your legacy technology in line with vital, newer, and more advanced technology.
Bottom line – moving to the cloud is a smart long-term investment, especially when you have the right partner. An experienced and knowledgeable cloud provider can help you maintain compliance and tackle future technology challenges with ease – something luck, good intentions, or wishful thinking can’t do. There’s no magic solution to make compliance simple.
If you would like to learn more about where the cloud and compliance intersect, CPU can help. Please give me a call at 419-872-9119 x299 or send an me an email at JDeWitt@CPUonline.com.
