The cloud industry is growing but so is wariness over security

Grazed from ComputerWorld. Author: Editorial Staff.

ISC(2) recently surveyed the attitudes of infosecurity professionals to cloud computing in our Global Information Security Workforce Study and the implications were clear – despite growing cloud adoption, concern over cloud security remains very high. In a significant reversal in infosecurity professionals’ views on future cloud use, far more expect to see cloud use at their organisations increasing over the next two to three years than when we last polled the industry in 2013.

Yet this does not appear to signify a corresponding increase in confidence in cloud security. Cloud-based services are cited as the biggest security concern by 49 percent of professionals and are ranked above cyber-terrorism as a top 10 security threat. And concerns are high among infosecurity professionals across every major vertical; 68 percent of those in telecoms, 55 percent of those in banking, 50 percent of government, 40 percent in defence and 60 percent in utilities say cloud security remains a paramount concern…

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