Cloud security faces new challenges

Grazed from ProofPoint.  Author: Editorial Staff.

The cybersecurity landscape has grown increasingly complex this year. As cloud computing and bring your own device policies have taken center stage in the enterprise, hackers have adapted to the sophistication of the technologies deployed by IT departments.

Large-scale data breaches and cyberthreats hit such trusted firms as Facebook, Dropbox and Adobe, putting millions of users’ sensitive information at risk. It’s clear that data protection in the cloud is an ongoing battle – and as adoption becomes a necessity rather than an option, firms have to prepare themselves to protect their corporate clouds from an ever-changing set of threats…

The direction of the cloud in 2014

The challenges that face cloud security are intimately related to the direction that the technology will take – what kinds of cloud services companies will flock to and what innovations vendors can produce. In a recent column for Forbes, IT expert Suhas Sreedhar discussed the top trends in cloud computing that are predicted to see continued growth next year…

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