Security failing to keep pace with cloud technology adoption, report finds
April 9, 2015
Grazed from CloudTech. Author: James Bourne.
Cloud service providers (CSPs) can no longer treat security as a luxurious add-on, and customers have to ensure their providers take care of the issue, a new report asserts. The research, the latest cab off the rank from Ovum and FireHost entitled “The Role of Security in Cloud Adoption within the Enterprise”, offers sound advice to vendors and users alike. True, it’s stuff everyone will have heard before – but it’s worth repeating.
“On too many occasions, security has been positioned as an afterthought when new technology initiatives have been brought to market,” Ovum analyst Andrew Kellett writes. “Any service that includes access via public networks cannot ignore user and data protection requirements.”…
It’s certainly a view FireHost agrees with. “For too long, businesses have made assumptions about the security of their cloud service providers,” said Eleri Gibbon, FireHost EMEA VP. “In the instance of a data breach, the client suffers the consequences. That doesn’t sit right with me – after all, if your house falls down unexpectedly, you’d expect people to ask questions about how it was built in the first place.”…
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