Cloud Multiplier Effect: How MSPs Can Address and Mitigate Security Risks
October 14, 2014
Grazed from MSPMentor. Author: Michael Brown.
The cloud undoubtedly has its many benefits. It’s accessible from many devices, it’s scalable, sharable, and supports dozens of apps that can be useful to you in your professional or personal life and offers almost infinite backup and storage. But it’s these very features that you find valuable that also put you at risk for a data breach. And that’s something that managed service providers (MSPs) who offer cloud-based file sharing services, must protect against.
A report by Ponemon Institute titled “Data Breach: The Cloud Multiplier Effect” addresses these concerns, and highlights the ways in which the risk of a data breach in the cloud is multiplying. It is therefore the job of MSPs to address and ease these justified worries. Through educating, making aware, and preparing your users, minimizing and mitigating security threats is very possible even as the Cloud expands. Here’s a look at how…
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The report is based on a sample of 613 IT and security professionals in the United States who are familiar with their company’s cloud, yet 64 percent believe that using cloud resources reduces their ability to secure business critical applications…
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