The news has been full of Ransomware horror stories. Businesses having to pay exorbitant amounts to unseen data pirates, companies losing all of their data and spending thousands of hours re-entering customer records, and small businesses going bankrupt.

This is another question that seemingly has no clear black and white answer. It is never a simple matter of pulling some mysterious switch and "BAM," you're in the cloud. In fact it's not always clear exactly where "The Cloud" is.

Many business owners ask themselves this question. As technology advances at break-neck speed, it seems the hackers always get there a few steps ahead of everyone else. After all, even the Pentagon gets hacked, right? So am I just deluding myself in thinking I can protect my business? Well... that depends.

I hear this question a lot. Business owners have heard all the hype about "moving to the cloud" and how it will cut their IT costs to 10%, run 10 times faster, yadda yadda yadda, yet often meet resistance when discussing it with their IT staff. There are a number of reasons why this happens and it's not always what you think.