Easily secure your cloud backups

You can’t have too many backups, and that at least one of those backups should ideally be stored offsite – which typically means in the cloud. But can you trust the cloud with your sensitive data? Can you be sure your cloud provider is telling the truth when it says your data is fully secure and private? What happens if its servers are hacked? Who controls the encryption keys that stand between you and your data being opened to government agencies?

The solution is to employ a secondary layer of encryption to your data before uploading it. This layer remains under your control, which means those encryption keys aren’t in anyone’s hands other than your own. You can employ this secondary layer several ways – the box (bottom right) reveals a quick technique for individual files – but another approach is to employ a virtual container inside which your files are stored.

The obvious solution here is VeraCrypt’s encrypted file container, but it’s not optimised for remote storage. Instead, try a free tool called Cryptomator (). This is similar to VeraCrypt in that you create an encrypted container, or vault, inside which all your sensitive data is copied. The vault resides in your local cloud folder – so works