Putting Trust Into the Cloud: an EU/ENISA Project

Grazed from InfoSecurity. Author: Editorial Staff.

Increased use of cloud computing in Europe could boost the economy by €100 billion and provide a net gain of 2.5 million jobs. But, says Neelie Kroes, "One of the obstacles to making the most of the cloud can be a lack of user trust; particularly about the security of systems (and for both individual users and businesses)."

A study undertaken by Ponemon for Axway demonstrates the depth of corporate concern over the use of public cloud services. The research questioned 621 IT professionals about the use of public cloud services, and found that 89% are unlikely to know if data is lost through the cloud, 80% are concerned about negative consequences from the loss of intellectual property, 69% probably don’t know whether staff are using the public cloud, 66% consider the practice risky, and nearly 50% believe popular cloud-sharing services are unsuitable for business…

Although this survey was specifically looking at public cloud file-sharing services (such as Dropbox, Box and Drive), the results are indicative of one of the biggest blocks to increased use of cloud services in general: a lack of confidence. It is an issue being tackled in Europe, as part of the European Cloud Strategy, by a joint project between the Digital Agenda and ENISA (the European Union Agency for Network and Information Security)…

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