How secure is OneDrive and Personal vault?

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I have been using one drive and personal vault for a while.  I was researching security of the service online – just two articles here:

https://www.cloudwards.net/onedrive-security/

https://www.cloudwards.net/what-exactly-is-zero-knowledge-in-the-cloud-and-how-does-it-work/

What do you think? How secure is One Drive? Personal vault? Does anyone use Boxcryptor or similar software for extra protection?  I am not so concerned about the government accessing my data as much as I am the potential for an MS employee to or a serious data breach of MS allowing access to my one drive and/or personal vault data.

note – I use 2FA & have a strong password (I use a pw vault)

Thanks and Happy New Year!!

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The first article tells you everything you need to know – your data is not secure unless you use zero knowledge encryption.

If you want to store your data in the cloud and need / want security, OneDrive is not the answer.

cheers, Paul

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Thank you.  I put files on OneDrive I do not consider sensitive – recipes, exercises, manuals,etc.  I don’t want anyone to access them, but if they did it would be ok. Anything I want to keep private I put in personal vault or on my hard drive.  And I will research software like Boxcrytor.

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Just use Veracrypt on your machine and store everything local.

cheers, Paul

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Yes but, I like having remote access to certain files.  Putting them in the cloud poses a security risk – encryption should eliminate that risk, I hope! Thanks for your advice – I need to do a little more research into the options.

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Closed VeraCrypt container files can be synced to the cloud.

Simultaneous sync and open of the container is known to cause problems, so either copy it elsewhere before opening a synced container, or turn off syncing (or be offline) while having the container open.

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Or Bitlocker if you have Windows Pro.

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dmt_3904 wrote:

I like having remote access to certain files.  Putting them in the cloud poses a security risk

Create a TeamDrive (synqion.com in the USA) account – free for personal use – and use a web browser to access your files remotely.

cheers, Paul

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