Yes that’s right, people are told to backup their laptops using Onedrive. If you queried it with your manager and said it breaks policy as the backup is not retained in the UK staff are told to do it anyway as they would be the one in trouble if their laptops failed.
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See https://help.uis.cam.ac.uk/system/files/documents/security-guidance-PDF.pdf
For US ITAR see https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/compliance/regulatory/offering-ITAR#Office%20365%20and%20Itar
Tired of this Europe and GDPR belly dancing. The only profitable business in Thales erstwhile EMEA was Middle East and Africa and that got gently peeled away and in the safe hands of Silan. Masterstroke by the boss. Hearing his holiness Silan is already done his whirlwind ME trips. smart.
Coming back, what does rest of Europe make in terms of margin. For all the pain of GDPR and goddam worker (sc--w) councils. Hope the boss fixes this as well
Australian staff can be hosted in Australia for Onedrive as it's a requirement for many government clients. I would assume someone is being cheap and only allowing those working on government contract access in the UK.
Since leaving DXC, I've worked for a company that kept sensitive client data and finance data and stayed away from OneDrive because of that issue of having data reside on servers that fall outside the EEU and also they didn't like the idea of servers that fall under federal law with access via subpoena without consent required.
Although we have learned since that the NSL access oneDrive and outlook without needing a warrant let alone notice to the users. Their supercomputers can churn through hashes and plain text in no time and operate above the EU-US Privacy sheild. So no, we don't use OneDrive for sensitive things, although it can be hard to police what staff do save on their laptops which can end up on a US server very quickly and breach GDPR rules (Europe) and UKDP laws (UK) if the client didn't agree to processing. But you can get azure to limit it to regional servers and no-one will look, honest.
OneDrive isn't really a backup, its a sync. So If you have malware delete everything on your drive, then good old sync will ensure your deletes are copied to the cloud too. It's helpful like that!
That’s not true for aerospace. They delayed on premise o365 for around a year to solution that.