Websense examines the cybercrime cloud connection…

June 23, 2014 Off By David
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Grazed from TechDay.  Author: Editorial Staff.

With cybercriminals increasingly targeting cloud service providers, nows the time to leverage your security expertise and guide your customers, says Gerry Tucker, Websense ANZ country manager.  IDC forecasts cloud computing to be a $107 billion industry globally by 2017.

Yet for many IT leaders, security concerns are the biggest hurdle when it comes to adopting cloud.  Many businesses are happy with the experience they have using cloud services as they value the improved flexibility and manageability of their IT infrastructure, not to mention lower total cost of ownership…


Yet cloud security often divides the audience with IT leaders voicing concerns about privacy and security. Here lies one of the biggest misconceptions about cloud: that it’s inherently not secure and it’s better to keep data stored on-site privately…

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