Clouds Are Pretty, but for True Data Security, Go External

Celebrities have it tough. They often have to wait in long lines for the best restaurants and nightclubs. People are always stopping them asking for directions, life hacking tips or photo opportunities. If they don’t entertain us to our expectations, we will flog them publicly on social media channels until our Chinese take-out arrives. They have a rough life – and when private info or photos become public, it only gets worse.

Kudos to Apple, our brother in storage, for looking into issues with iCloud security that were reported this past weekend. No one wants the paranoia of whether or not his or her personal data is truly secure. While we’re waiting with bated breath to see how this plays out, here’s a tip: erase all doubt about security and get an external hard drive – oh look, Seagate Backup Plus is right here.

With Seagate Backup Plus, you and only you (unless you actually lend it to someone) will have access to your photos and music in a slim, sexy (just like the rest of Hollywood) portable package that you can take with you anywhere. In fact it’s so slim that it’ll fit perfectly in the dog purse you’re carrying. (And yes, that’s a real term. I wanted to say I made that up, but I checked and it really does exist.)

Seagate Backup Plus also allows you to backup your photos from Facebook and Flickr and share your custom videos directly to YouTube so you control what content you want to have visible – no surprises.

Plus, when you hit a Wi-Fi hot spot, you can backup your smartphone and tablet to the Seagate Backup Plus content on the go and wirelessly! — through the Seagate Mobile Backup App. And yes, this too is secure so your content will stay your content. Watch this video to learn how.

Make no mistake — the cloud is awesomely convenient. Security situations like what happened with iCloud this weekend are few and far between. But for true peace of mind, always have an external hard drive to back up what you’re backing up and protect that which is worth protecting.

2014-09-03T09:12:07+00:00

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