The Challenge:
I'm using a notebook for my work and mostly save my data to the local disc. For security reasons, this drive is encrypted using EFS technology which is build-in in Windows 7. When I'm in the office in Cologne, I'm able to sync my business related data against the file server. But I also carry some personal files on the disk. For these files (like banking data) I searched for a simple solution to save them.
Microsoft SkyDrive
I found Microsoft's service SkyDrive (http://skydrive.live.com), which offers a capacity of 25 GByte for files, photos, videos and documents for free. There is also a tool from Microsoft called Mesh, which can synchronize local folders from different computers with SkyDrive.
Improve Security – But how?
This works well, but I'm not sure if it is a good idea to copy sensitive personal data to the cloud. But what could I do? My first idea was to use an encryption software which can map a virtual drive to an encrypted container.
But there are two disadvantages for this simple solution:
The Challenge:
I'm using a notebook for my work and mostly save my data to the local disc. For security reasons, this drive is encrypted using EFS technology which is build-in in Windows 7. When I'm in the office in Cologne, I'm able to sync my business related data against the file server. But I also carry some personal files on the disk. For these files (like banking data) I searched for a simple solution to save them.
