With my user/increasingly crazy man in the woods hat? Fuck that noise.
With my corporate stooge hat (that is the one that pays for the previous hats)? This actually is a really good idea. Way too often we have people saving documents to their laptops or losing them when they break a desktop enough that IT has to reimage it. Everything corporate should live in the corporate data store by default.
And… at this point, any individual user using MS Office is an idiot who probably also needs that extra layer of protection. Why spend money when Google Drive (which is already cloud native) works just as well? And for those who care about offline use? Get Libre Office where stuff is perpetually 80% as good.
Yes, for the reasons you mention. And very, very much no. My corporate hat immediately thinks about a crapload of stuff our network drives have which is under various NDAs, restrictions to store outside EU/ETA, restrictions to store even outside our country and so on. At least our accounts have mandatory MFA and other standard safety features, but cloud storage has a different threat model than our local hardware which also makes it’s own little headaches.
I don’t play on the contract/legal field on corporate at all, but I do know that some of those NDAs have numbers big enough to bring the whole circus down and other clauses which can even throw someone in jail if things really go wrong. I just hope I’m not the scapegoat at that point.
If data has handling requirements it 500% should not be something people are storing on their “personal” devices.
I personally hate the idea of storing corporate data in “cloud” storage, but MS et al have gotten approval from many governments to do exactly that. So if that is your corporate data store? Then that is where it goes. And if someone is making a new document with additional restrictions then they better damned well have training on how to pick which folder in onedrive it goes into.
an alternative to MS (or some other third-party) cloud doesn’t have to be “personal” devices, though. company-specific handling requirements can still be achieved via self-hosted network shares containing all user-saved data, which still aids in the local storage replacement issue that you’re having.
but for many companies and spaces, MS cloud or whatever third-party could be just fine, and this will of course push some of those folks that direction nicely
With my user/increasingly crazy man in the woods hat? Fuck that noise.
With my corporate stooge hat (that is the one that pays for the previous hats)? This actually is a really good idea. Way too often we have people saving documents to their laptops or losing them when they break a desktop enough that IT has to reimage it. Everything corporate should live in the corporate data store by default.
And… at this point, any individual user using MS Office is an idiot who probably also needs that extra layer of protection. Why spend money when Google Drive (which is already cloud native) works just as well? And for those who care about offline use? Get Libre Office where stuff is perpetually 80% as good.
Yes, for the reasons you mention. And very, very much no. My corporate hat immediately thinks about a crapload of stuff our network drives have which is under various NDAs, restrictions to store outside EU/ETA, restrictions to store even outside our country and so on. At least our accounts have mandatory MFA and other standard safety features, but cloud storage has a different threat model than our local hardware which also makes it’s own little headaches.
I don’t play on the contract/legal field on corporate at all, but I do know that some of those NDAs have numbers big enough to bring the whole circus down and other clauses which can even throw someone in jail if things really go wrong. I just hope I’m not the scapegoat at that point.
If data has handling requirements it 500% should not be something people are storing on their “personal” devices.
I personally hate the idea of storing corporate data in “cloud” storage, but MS et al have gotten approval from many governments to do exactly that. So if that is your corporate data store? Then that is where it goes. And if someone is making a new document with additional restrictions then they better damned well have training on how to pick which folder in onedrive it goes into.
an alternative to MS (or some other third-party) cloud doesn’t have to be “personal” devices, though. company-specific handling requirements can still be achieved via self-hosted network shares containing all user-saved data, which still aids in the local storage replacement issue that you’re having. but for many companies and spaces, MS cloud or whatever third-party could be just fine, and this will of course push some of those folks that direction nicely