Secure Cloud Transitions Start with Infrastructure Reviews

Grazed from EnterpriseTech.  Author: Alison Diana.
 

There’s a temptation to view the many flavors of cloud as the solution to all an enterprise’s network, storage, and infrastructure challenges. But simply transitioning existing processes to the cloud without scrutinizing every element from a security perspective compounds current vulnerabilities and creates new problems.

Despite the risks, between 40 percent and 60 percent of enterprises today do not always review these processes before moving to cloud, according to CompTIA’sTrends in Information Security Study, published March 2015. Risks include security gaps; moving some processes back to on-premise systems, or switching cloud providers – time-consuming, expensive, and sometimes risky…

In fact, 60 percent of those organizations that moved back to on-premise systems from cloud cited security as the driver behind their reversal, according to CompTIA’s Fifth Annual Trends in Cloud Computing study, released November 2014. Other reasons included failure to integrate (27 percent) and failure to achieve cost goals (23 percent), found the report by the organization of information communications and technology service companies…

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