What’s all the worry about? The cloud is more secure
September 1, 2014
Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: Karl Flinders.
In the on-premise versus in the cloud debate it is always the subject of security that swings people in favour of on-premise. People feel safer if their software is on their own premises, but does that mean it is safer. Everybody is connected to the internet so bricks and mortar is no protection. You could argue that if it is on your own premises you have better control of physical security. Anyway the point of this post is to highlight research from analyst firm Pierre Audoin Consultants (PAC), which states that: "Cloud [is] more secure than on-premise IT"
"Rapid development in cloud-based security, including physical security within the data centres, means that, for many firms, it is more effective and cost efficient to locate IT systems in the cloud than on on-premise equipment. CIOs and CISOs should consider the cloud for many of their IT systems, while for SMEs and local government PAC recommends that it should be the default architecture," said PAC…
"Security is often regarded as an inhibitor to cloud adoption," said Duncan Brown, research director for cyber-security at PAC and the report’s author. "But today’s cloud-based security capability embeds state-of-the-art cyber and physical security that most company would find prohibitively expensive if implemented on-premise."…
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