Is my data safe in the cloud? That's a question we hear often. The answer is yes. Very.
The cloud has helped to revolutionise the business of email marketing. When we started out, we needed servers. They were ours, specified bought and (sometimes) built by us, and located physically in data warehouses that we could (and did) visit. Email data was processed by us, within our own hardware universe. We enjoyed the challenges as we grew and our infrastructure grew too. Costs were relatively high though, and the more data we processed the more time we needed to manage our server growth path.
Along came the cloud, morphing from a developer space to a commercial space for all manner of businesses. After a while it became clear that the opportunities to process data quickly, securely and without fail gave us some exciting new directions.
If you are concerned about security in the cloud, it’s probably based around two areas;
When we validate your emails you can be assured that no-one can access your data and that it stays within a secure environment all the while, until it is ready for you to download your results.
We use Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services to deliver our cloud based services. Azure is a secure, protected system that enables us to validate emails on servers worldwide. We use it to interrogate and manage millions upon millions of pieces of data.
In addition we use a security system called CloudFlare that wraps our services in a secure blanket.
You may feel as though the cloud is less secure than your own site because you can’t see it. For all the talk of cloud, something has to exist somewhere on a real computer - right?
It’s unlikely your system and processes could be more secure than Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services. If you want to read in detail about what makes Azure secure, have a look at the information within the Trust-Center where information is given in detail about the following 4 areas.
Imagine your own network - is it as well resourced as Microsoft or Amazon?
In addition to Microsoft Azure’s security, your email data will be safely carried within Email Hippo security systems and processes as we offer Software as a Service (SaaS) within the cloud.
Security is a massive deal for us, as is maintaining data integrity. We operate worldwide within the guidelines of numerous Anti-Spam and Data Privacy policies internationally. Our email validation services help reduce spam, by ensuring that companies don’t send emails to invalid addresses. By improving email deliverability securely we help move the internet towards spam-free. We do this in the most secure environment available. Your email data is safe with Email Hippo and safe within the cloud.
If you want to understand the cloud as a service offer for your business and you’re not a techy, this article on “Explain that Stuff” is a good start point. Cloud Computing Introduction
Read about Email Hippo data security on our compliance pages.