Cloud Security Priorities and Synergies with Enterprise Security
August 4, 2014
Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Jon Oltsik.
According to ESG research, 63% of mid-market (i.e. 250 to 999 employees) and enterprise (i.e. more than 1,000 employees) are currently using Software-as-a Service (SaaS), 33% use Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), and 27% employ Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) today (note: I am an ESG employee).
Additionally, 72% of all firms are increasing their spending on cloud computing initiatives this year. Wasn’t IT risk supposed to put the brakes on cloud computing deployment? Security professionals are still quite concerned. In a recent ESG research survey, infosec pros identified numerous cloud security risk areas as follows:…
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