You also want to be using a good password along with your Microsoft Account to help prevent unauthorized local access to your files. Of course, you control the physical security of that hardware so obviously you want to protect the device from theft by not leaving it in your car or opened and unattended in your local coffee shop. So that covers your data in the cloud but the other physical location for your OneDrive files is your own device(s). Furthermore, if one of these servers is decommissioned, all disks are logically and physically destroyed to avoid data leakage." Within these datacenters, the critical Azure AD services that store customer data are located in special locked racks-their physical access is highly restricted and camera-monitored 24 hours a day. All access to our datacenters is strictly regulated and every entry and exit are monitored. "Microsoft’s datacenter personnel must pass a background check.
To answer this part let me quote something from Microsoft about access to its data centers where your OneDrive files reside in the cloud: I was recently asked just how secure are the files that users store in OneDrive and I can answer this question from a couple of perspectives.įirst let's talk about the physical security of your files on OneDrive. These days it is available to anyone with a Microsoft Account and typically provides 5GB of cloud-based storage unless of course you have an Office 365 subscription or might have been grandfathered as storage allowances changed over the past few years. Microsoft's cloud based file sharing and syncing service, now known as OneDrive, has been through a few iterations throughout its 10-year history.
Windows Live Folders, Windows Live SkyDrive, SkyDrive, and OneDrive.
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