Survey: IT Managers Tackle Cloud Apps Procurement

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Chris Talbot.

As organizations of all sizes adopt cloud computing services, many are beginning to take a more active role in evaluating cloud applications as part of the software procurement process. According to the annual SailPoint Market Pulse Survey, 63 percent of enterprises now require IT decision-makers to evaluate services during the procurement process.

However, just as businesses are starting to dive into the deep end of the cloud pool, the survey also indicates that they are not so quick to adopt security best practices around cloud. The survey indicated that many enterprises are adopting, or even mandating, cloud services, but many of those currently do not have the IT controls in place to properly manage them. It’s creating increased risk of fraud, theft and privacy breaches…

One particularly interesting fact from the survey is that more than 50 percent of the respondents admitted they have experienced situations in the last year in which a terminated employee tried to access company data or applications after they left the organization. That’s a significant number, and it just shows that there are some IT controls that are still not being properly implemented (whether it’s cloud-related or not)…

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