Ponemon Institute: IT Is Losing the Cloud Security Battle
November 4, 2014
Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: CJ Arlotta.
A new study from the Ponemon Institute and SafeNet revealed that when it comes to data security and the cloud, the majority of IT departments are "left in the dark." The study of more than 1,800 IT professionals, titled "The Challenges of Cloud Information Governance: A Global Data Security Study," showed 71 percent of respondents said they believe it is more difficult to use conventional security practices to protect sensitive data in the cloud.
Instead, IT departments often rely on encryption and multi-factor authentication to safeguard their data in the cloud. "While the cloud has revolutionized the way IT is delivered, many IT organizations are finding it difficult to keep up with demand for these services and the security implications that are created when critical data is stored in the cloud," Tsion Gonen, SafeNet’s chief strategy officer, said in a prepared statement…
"And as we’ve seen in 2014 with a raft of record-breaking data breaches, organizations are attacked frequently from different angles. In order to mitigate risk, there needs to be focused coordination and new approaches to securing data in the cloud, and IT needs to be at the center of this migration."…
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