While untold numbers of beauty retailers are saving money by moving to the could, IT experts say these businesses need to ensure their cloud contracts include ironclad security protections or they'll suffer an uncertain future. "After reading in the news how accounts are hacked and sensitive photos of celebrities are sold, anything using that uses cloud services can be a real issue," says Kim Snyder, CEO of Overall Beauty (overallbeauty.com). "You need to know how safe your cloud services are going to be. Have a lawyer [present] to be sure that what you are signing up for it what you will be receiving - the length of the contract, who is handling the cloud services, and so on." Rudy Falco, COO of AVEYOU Beauty Boutique (aveyou.com) agrees; "If any given company is giving their sensitive corporate or customer data to a relatively unknown storage provider, it would make sense to have a lawyer review the policies of [that] company."
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