Cloud Data Privacy Concerns

Discussions center on enterprises' reluctance to use cloud-based SaaS products due to risks of sending sensitive data off-premises, emphasizing preferences for on-premises, self-hosted, or local solutions for security, compliance, and legal reasons.

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MS IT II e.g AWS HR AI SQL JDBC SSO data cloud hosted prem locally enterprise party host privacy premises

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BrainInAJar Jun 7, 2016 View on HN

Cloud is a no-go if you're handling sensitive client data (like all of their passwords)

LoSboccacc Mar 19, 2017 View on HN

Enterprise are really adverse to storing/sharing data outside premises

dingobread Jun 27, 2023 View on HN

Neat idea, but making this a cloud based SaaS makes it useless for us. The docs claim that your company wouldn't see the data, but we'd still be sending unencrypted data to your own team's black box endpoint. We would have to blindly trust your company, but this isn't any better than just blindly trusting OpenAI.

dagw Dec 16, 2022 View on HN

Aren't those both cloud only products that require you to send your data to third party servers (quite possibly in another country)? In some cases that is a hard no.

slowmotiony Sep 18, 2019 View on HN

This is amazing, but there is no way that my firm will send any excels with our data to a relatively small and unknown third-party provider who will host it on a public URL. Are you thinking about allowing users to run this on-site?

pachico Jul 7, 2023 View on HN

Thank you but for legal and compliance reasons data cannot leave my premises/cloud. The entire point is precisely that, to be honest.

steve_barham May 22, 2013 View on HN

I want to test this product, and I'm in a position where I could spend real money on a purchase or subscription to this service in the event that it does what we need.Unfortunately, as soon as I see that data is sent off-site, I immediately discard this as a product which my organisation can use.Reasons1. I am an engineer, working in a highly regulated environment. Regulated environments excel at buying things, or subscribing to things - we have whole teams of people that are delighted

philipov Sep 29, 2023 View on HN

It looks like a cloud-only app. If it doesn't run entirely locally, it's useless to me. Shipping my data to an external data processor is a security risk I'm not allowed to take.

sixstringmonk Sep 1, 2016 View on HN

Looks great, but I wonder if it being SAAS / off prem is going to be a problem for some folks. I know for example, we would not want the names of our domain accounts, table names, proc names, etc... being stored in an external service.

shmerl Oct 22, 2020 View on HN

I wouldn't trust it to a closed source client and their cloud.