That is a good question to ask, certainly any time you put data into the cloud, you are trusting a 3rd party. In this case, we here at Microsoft take security a

That is a good question to ask, certainly any time you put data into the cloud, you are trusting a 3rd party. In this case, we here at Microsoft take security and data privacy very very seriously. Actually we even published a whitepaper on this topic, see: Visual Studio Team Services Data Protection Overview https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/articles/team-services-security-whitepaper https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/articles/team-services-se... I hope that helps.