How to keep your data safe in the cloud

The cloud is vulnerable to hackers. Be careful out there.

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Cloud storage and cloud computing are booming. Worldwide public cloud service revenues are expected to grow by 18.5 percent in 2017 to a whopping $260 billion — and there's no reason to think that pace will slow down any time soon.

It's not hard to see why business is booming. The cloud offers families a convenient way to store everything from pictures to documents, and provides individuals and businesses efficient new ways to work together, handle services such as payroll or online software, and share what they're doing via remote networks of servers.

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Harold Maass, The Week US

Harold Maass is a contributing editor at The Week. He has been writing for The Week since the 2001 debut of the U.S. print edition and served as editor of TheWeek.com when it launched in 2008. Harold started his career as a newspaper reporter in South Florida and Haiti. He has previously worked for a variety of news outlets, including The Miami Herald, ABC News and Fox News, and for several years wrote a daily roundup of financial news for The Week and Yahoo Finance.