Cloud Computing Security Proving Difficult for Midsize Businesses

Grazed from MidSize Insider.  Author: Shawn Drew.

A new survey on the state of cloud security shines a light on the increasingly complex task of securing data and applications, with which midsize businesses are having a particularly tough time. These businesses need to understand the importance of security and find a way to mitigate risk as they make the almost inevitable push toward the cloud.

Businesses Finding Difficulty With Cloud Computing Security

The latest cloud security insight comes from a survey conducted by AlgoSec, which asked cloud-based security questions of over 350 IT professionals, data center architects, application owners and CIOs. The results of the survey, summarized in eWeek, prove that even as the cloud becomes a standard part of almost every information infrastructure, cloud computing security has a long way to go…


The survey found that almost 80 percent of businesses lack the visibility required to unify their security policies across their internal network and the cloud. Additionally, 59 percent of respondents saw a lack of operational work flows to effectively manage security in the cloud, and 49 percent claimed they were having difficulty showing security compliance with infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) solutions…

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