No question that business cannot afford gaps in security, BUT, if Chrysler cannot prevent Jeep from being hacked, Twitter was hacked and Facebook was hacked, let's face it, nothing is hack proof. Wha

The way to ask the question is this: Is my datacenter more secure than the cloud vendor? To answer this, you could conduct an SSAE-16 audit of your datacenter and compare it to the audit results for the cloud vendor. In my experience, most datacenters are LESS secure because the average IT department does not have the resources to address all of vulnerabilities it faces - both from hackers and from lack of internal controls (most data is stolen by employees, not be hackers).

The counter-argument is this: if I'm a small business, am I more likely to be hacked than a large business? That depends on what hackers are after - if you do a lot of on-line business or are a start-up that might have tempting intellectual property, you are likely to be a target.

I agree with you, Donald. Most datacenters are actually less secure due to resource constraints, and focus spending on more capacity versus cyber-security.

Your counter-argument is also a valid one.

Because so much of our marketplace is comprised of small businesses, we shouldn't underestimate the 'small time' operatives that target them. They are able to (fairly easily) pirate transaction activity using ubiquitous public networks using key loggers, trackers, and the like. Masking a small company's wireless network takes more than a unique SSID with an encrypted password. We need to understand the potential false sense of security that can create, and continue educating each other on cyber security fundamentals. Not everyone already knows the basics so it's great that Proformative hosts webinars around this topic.