Don't let data security become the "stumbling block" of cloud accounting

Absrtact: In recent years, the advent of cloud computing technology for the traditional accounting information implementation model has brought new changes and challenges, will help small and medium-sized enterprises at very low cost with the same advanced network hardware equipment, accounting information systems and quality software services, thus speeding up the realization of small and medium-sized accounting information, Improve the management capacity and competitiveness of enterprises.

The development of information technology promotes the production of computerized accounting, which frees accountants from the tedious manual accounting work.

As a kind of advanced information technology, cloud computing is mainly embodied in its service of IT resources, such as software, platform and network hardware infrastructure, so as to innovate new business model and business model.

Based on cloud computing, enterprises can according to their own financial accounting information needs, through the Internet to the Accounting cloud computing service operators need to customize the required accounting software function module, and according to the number of custom modules to pay the monthly fee, as in daily use of "water, electricity, gas" the same. In this way, for enterprises, the adoption of cloud computing can save a lot of hardware costs and maintenance costs.

The development of accounting informatization based on cloud computing

At present, the domestic financial accounting software services based on cloud computing are mainly concentrated in the low-end market, the software is relatively elementary.

The cloud computing service operators in the field of accounting informatization mainly provide some basic and single financial functions, such as the "Money dispensers" accounting and financial management online service for small and medium-sized enterprises promoted by Ali software of Alibaba [11.46-3.86%] group, Mainly around the daily basic financial accounting work needs of small and medium-sized enterprises to provide cloud computing services, Ufida Group's Wei-ku network for small and medium-sized enterprises to provide a paid online services based on cloud computing is mainly related to marketing, online bookkeeping, accounting, Cash Management and other basic functions.

In fact, the domestic cloud computing service operators can not provide a set of small and medium-sized enterprises based on the financial accounting as the core, the financial accounting and business management integration of the complete software system, which is a large number of small and medium-sized enterprises urgently needed.

Data security problem cold people worry

Although cloud computing can enable SMEs to quickly realize the accounting information, but cloud computing also has unavoidable drawbacks. When remote servers, storage devices, and other hardware and network infrastructure occurs power outages or downtime, the use of Accounting cloud computing services enterprises will not be able to grasp the initiative to solve the problem. In addition, the security problem of accounting data has been the "stumbling block" of cloud computing in the financial accounting informatization of small and medium-sized enterprises in China, and the distrust of cloud computing generally stems from the worry about the security of accounting data.

Due to the professionalism and standardization of accounting software, cloud computing models are likely to cause a cloud to store more than one enterprise's accounting data, and a significant number of companies fear that the most secretive core financial accounting data is stolen by hackers or accidentally leaked to other businesses of the same cloud services operator, which is certainly fatal to the business.

In addition, enterprises to the large number of accounting data to cloud computing service operators, with data priority is not the enterprise, but operators. In this way, it is impossible to rule out the possibility of corporate data being leaked. Therefore, most enterprises say "very worried" cloud accounting data security, privacy and confidentiality, cloud security issues have become the choice of small and medium-sized enterprises based on cloud computing to implement accounting information can not be avoided a problem.

How to realize virtuous circle and sustainable development of accounting informatization industry

Whether the security of accounting data can be solved is the key factor of whether the accounting cloud service can be recognized by users. In addition to the possible large-scale computing resources of the system failure, cloud computing security risks include the lack of unified security standards, applicable regulations and in the user's privacy protection, data sovereignty, migration, transmission security, disaster preparedness and other problems. The accounting informatization based on cloud computing must carry on in-depth research in data encryption, migration, backup and position control to ensure the usability, usability, stability and security of the accounting cloud service.

The solution to the problem of data security also includes the continuous improvement of cloud computing laws and regulations, for example, in the data privacy protection, data sovereignty, service agreement security, Cloud computing Service Operators qualification certification and other aspects of the development of accounting information based on cloud computing will lay a solid foundation, enhance the user's confidence to use cloud computing, Make them willing to pay for cloud computing. Only in this way, there will be more accounting information cloud computing services operators to achieve profits on the cloud, so as to develop more accounting information applications, to achieve the entire accounting information industry virtuous circle and sustainable development.

(Responsible editor: Lu Guang)