Cyber Surveillance Headlines Put Spotlight on Consumer Cloud, but Implications Loom Larger for the Enterprise
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Coverage of the PRISM surveillance program highlights only the most recent example of personal data ending up in the hands of unintended parties. While most attention has been placed on consumer public cloud services such as Gmail and Facebook, many corporate CISOs and CIOs are now re-evaluating the risks of third party access and surveillance to corporate cloud services. Regardless of whether these third parties are governments, cyber-activists, or cyber-criminals, the message is becoming clear – when enterprises put their information into shared cloud services, such as SaaS applications, they need to carefully think through the implications of giving away control of their sensitive corporate data assets.
Enterprise cloud adoption has been rapidly growing despite a historic reluctance to place sensitive data into cloud applications. Today, corporate IT security teams face extraordinary pressure from business units such as Sales, Customer Support, Marketing, HR and IT Service Management, to allow information into cloud applications…
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