5 major security concerns with cloud vendors that outsource to third parties

June 11, 2015 Off By David

Grazed from Techspective. Author: Rahul Dasgupta.

According to a Gartner prediction cloud adoption will rise to $250 billion by 2017. 42 percent of IT leaders plan to spend more on cloud this year as per a ComputerWorld forecast. These statistics prove how the cloud is becoming increasingly popular as the enhanced flexibility and the potential cost savings that cloud computing offers is continuing to intrigue an increasing number of businesses.

However, there is a thin difference on how cloud vendors operate. One type of vendor offers proprietary cloud services, while the other outsources some of the services covered in the contract to another cloud-computing service provider. While every business is aware of the first type of provider, most organizations fail to consider the security concerns involved if their provider outsources to a third party…

In this article, we will cover several security concerns involved, which you need to be aware of when your cloud vendor outsources its services to a third party. Let’s take a look at them…

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