Cloud computing may make IT compliance auditing even cloudier

Grazed from ZDNet.  Author: Joe McKendrick.

Compliance is one of those thankless activities that add a lot more pain than gain to IT managers’ and professionals’ worklives. It’s a matter of doing the minimum that needs to get done and be done with it, so one can get back to the good things, like building commerce and analytics systems.

Accordingly, most IT departments are ill-prepared for any audits that may come their way. A new survey finds three out of five IT professionals say they’re not ready for compliance audits…


That’s the key takeaway from a survey of 313 IT professionals sponsored by Ipswitch. A majority, 59 percent, said they were not fully prepared to undergo an audit. Underscoring the point, 75 percent even admitted they lack the confidence that colleagues authorized to work with sensitive information are adequately protecting it…

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