04/18/2018

Embracing the Cloud

A new report finds public cloud security risks do not seem to be deterring organizations

Many organizations rely on cloud computing in one way or another. Not all clouds are created equal from a security standpoint, but as a new report from the digital security firm McAfee finds, that doesn’t appear to be slowing cloud computing’s massive growth.

The company’s latest report, Navigating a Cloudy Sky: Practical Guidance and the State of Cloud Security, highlights the increased use of public cloud services and their related security problems, including the risk of information theft. The report, based on responses from 1,400 IT decision-makers and interviews with C-level executives, notes that 87 percent of organizations store sensitive data in the public cloud, and 69 percent are willing to put their trust in outside cloud services.

But risks linger. A quarter of respondents said they’ve experienced some form of data theft through the cloud, whether through their infrastructure or through software-as-a-service applications, and a fifth said they’ve experienced an attack on their public cloud infrastructure.

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