Many clients operate businesses and wealth management portfolios that require highly secure information management solutions. Some managed hosting providers are able to offer clients in the US, UK, and Australia, a level of service that offers them a highly secure data environment that is outside the jurisdiction of traditional agencies.
Managed hosting providers can setup offshore servers that contain and store your personal information, including emails, and scanned copies of important documents, as well as other intellectual property or business secrets. Users then open a remote session to the offshore server and conduct business through the terminal. Importantly, because your data is stored with your managed hosting provider (and not on your laptop) - a high level of protection is achieved. Only the screen view is dynamically transferred (usually through an encrypted tunnel) which cannot be reverse engineered to provide any meaningful information.
It is important to choose a managed hosting provider that itself is not incorporated in your home juridiction, otherwise they may be subpenoed to or forced to hand over hard drives containing your documents.
With today's remote tunnel technology, it would be quite foolish to continue to leave important documents in electronic form on your laptop or even with a domestic managed hosting provider.
There are many legitimate reasons to want to protect your privacy. The world is constantly awaking to new depths of corruption and personal wars within government bodies; many sophisticated individuals are incorporating managed hosting in foreign jurisdictions as the ultimate top-spin to their asset protection strategy.
