Nearly half of enterprise IT decision makers reported a security lapse or issue with their cloud provider within the last 12 months, according to a survey conducted by cloud security provider Trend Micro.
Infosecurity.Com - Slightly over 10% of the respondents currently have cloud computing projects in production, and close to half are either implementing or piloting new cloud applications, according to a survey of 1,200 IT decision makers in the US, UK, Germany, India, Canada, and Japan.
“One thing that stood out is that we’ve got a lot of existing cloud apps that have security problems and a whole bunch of new ones coming in that are being built the same way. So we are positioning ourselves to have more security problems coming up unless people take the right steps to secure their cloud”, said Dave Asprey, vice president of cloud security at Trend Micro.
An interesting finding is that 7% of those surveyed said that they did not use a cloud service providers, even though they identified cloud service provider as vendors they were working with.
“Sometimes people aren’t even sure that they are working with cloud vendors. They think, ‘Oh no, that’s just outsourcing’ but they might not know that it’s outsourcing to a company that uses the cloud….So it seems like the cloud is pervasive, but people don’t even know that they need to be thinking about it from a security perspective”, Asprey told Infosecurity. Read More
