Small business owners: when your data is not your own

In recent months I’ve talked to the BizWest audience about the increasing costs of data loss and data security for small-business owners. But while we data-security experts continue to hammer these points home, few have taken the time to examine what a daunting task we are asking of people who would really like to concentrate on the things they know and excel at, such as being a dentist, an accountant or an attorney.

Consider this: In the age of “The Cloud” a small business must cobble together a vast assortment of tools to support email, file…