Even as cloud and managed services grow increasingly central to business strategy and performance, challenges remain. The biggest sticking point for companies seeking to capitalize on the cloud is data security. Keeping data safe is an issue in any computing environment, and it has been a focus since the earliest days of the cloud revolution. Understandably so: a lot can go wrong when you allow valuable information to live outside the firewall. Recent revelations about government snooping, along with a steady stream of well-publicized data breaches, only add to the uncertainty. In his session at 16th Cloud Expo, Denny Heaberlin, Security Product Manager with Windstream's Cloud and Data Center Marketing team, discussed how to manage these concerns and how choose the right cloud vendor, an essential part of any cloud strategy.