Security Professionals Identify IT Risks Associated with Cloud Computing
January 28, 2014
Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: John Olstick.
It’s highly likely that cloud security will be one of the hot topics at this year’s RSA Security Conference coming up in February. Yes, there will surely be a lot of rhetoric and hype, but this is a very important topic for our industry to discuss as cloud computing continues to gain momentum with enterprise organizations.
While information security is still the primary concern around cloud computing, enterprise organizations aren’t holding back on deployment, albeit with non-sensitive workloads for the most part. So what are the IT risks associated with using cloud-based infrastructure? ESG recently surveyed 211 security professionals working at enterprise organizations (i.e. more than 1,000 employees) and asked them to identify the biggest risks associated with cloud infrastructure services. Here’s what they said:…
- 33% of security professionals say that the biggest risk associated with cloud infrastructure services is a, "lack of control with security operations directly related to cloud-based IT resources used for internal purposes." In other words, there is still an IT operations gap between cloud-based infrastructure and internal activities…
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