1 in 3 businesses swerve cloud due to government snooping
March 28, 2014
Grazed from SC Magazine. Author: Steve Gold.
According to Lieberman Software’s report, the bulk of these `cloud defectors’ are opting to store their data in local data centre resources, rather than the cloud, thanks in part to Edward Snowden’s revelations on the NSA and GCHQ over the last 10 months.
Interestingly, the Privileged Identity Management specialist says that – in its 2012 analysis on the same subject – distrust in cloud computing was even higher. And whilst trust in the cloud has risen by 15 per cent over the last year or so, the government surveillance reports in the news have caused trust levels to take a dive again…
Philip Lieberman, the firm’s president, said that when his company undertook its survey in November of 2012, 86 per cent of respondents preferred to keep their more sensitive data within their own network, rather than the cloud…
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