Inconsistent Cloud Security Practices Pose Opportunity For Added Value
February 12, 2015
Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Ericka Chickowski.
The volume and diversity of cloud services in use by companies continues to rise significantly year-over-year. And, according to a report out yesterday by Skyhigh Networks, the good news is that security capabilities have also matured as deployments have grown. Increasingly more services are offering better encryption, multi-factor authentication and ISO 27001 certification proving their in-house security practices.
Nevertheless end user organizations are still struggling with data governance and access control in the cloud. The Cloud Adoption & Risk (CAR) Report showed that from fourth quarter 2013 to fourth quarter 2014, the average number of cloud services in use within the enterprises increased by 43 percent to 897 services, which includes both sanctioned and shadow IT applications…
Among these cloud services, the fastest growing categories were development-related and collaboration services…
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