How effective companies are protecting sensitive data in cloud
October 30, 2014
Grazed from ComputerReview. Author: Editorial Staff.
70% find more difficult to handle privacy and data protection regulations in cloud. Only 38% of global organisations have defined roles and accountability for preserving confidential or sensitive data in the cloud, a new survey of IT professionals has found. According to the latest Ponemon Institute study commissioned by SafeNet, about 44% of corporate data stored in cloud environments is not supervised or controlled by the IT department.
About 70% of respondents find it more difficult to handle privacy and data protection regulations in a cloud environment, while about three-quarters of them consider cloud as very vital now, and three quarters of them deem it will be vital over the next two years…
Ponemon Institute chairman Dr. Larry Ponemon said: "The findings reveal that global organizations are struggling to secure data in the cloud due to the lack of critical governance and security practices in place…
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