Are Cloud and BYOD Making Your Clients Less Safe?
December 16, 2013
Grazed from ChannelNomics. Author: Chris Gonsalves.
There’s no denying that cloud computing and mobility have changed the way organizations do business, mostly for the better. But the productivity and cost benefits of cloud and ubiquitous mobile access are balanced by commensurate increase in risks to security and regulatory compliance, a new study shows.
Identity and access management provider SailPoint Technologies Inc. last week released new research that shows the rush to adopt cutting-edge technologies like cloud and BYOD has not been met with a corresponding lift in appropriate IT controls to properly manage them. That’s put many organizations at increased risk of fraud, theft, and privacy breaches, SailPoint concludes…
According to SailPoint’s 2013 Market Pulse Survey of 400 IT decision makers at large firms in the U.S. and U.K., 84 percent of enterprises now use cloud-based applications to support major business processes, and 82 percent allow employees to use personal devices to access critical company data and applications…
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