Majority of IT leaders concerned about cloud security, data privacy

Grazed from NetworkAsia. Author: Editorial Staff.

A study of 232 global IT executives this year has revealed that a vast majority of organizations (87%) are concerned with the security and privacy of corporate data in cloud deployments. The survey, titled “Preparing for next-generation cloud: Lessons learned and insights shared”, was conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and sponsored by Hitachi Data systems.

Responses also indicated that outages and failures of public cloud implementations were twice as likely to occur when compared to private cloud. Almost half of the respondents indicated the biggest risk of a failed implementation to be loss of customer data. The report found that while cloud computing has delivered many benefits, cloud adoption also continues to challenge even the most nimble of companies. Other highlights include:…

· 67% of respondents have suffered some type of incident or issue related to their cloud computing implementation.

· Of the respondents experiencing an incident, 9% indicated it as being “high damage”, while 55% indicated the damage as being “limited” and 34% “medium.”…

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