Survey finds the cloud is considered less secure, but we’re moving there anyway.
In a survey conducted by the Poneman Institute for the encryption key management company,Thalus e-Security, they found that more than half (53 percent) of the 4,205 business and IT managers surveyed stated that they were already sending sensitive data to the cloud. This flies in the face of many cloud computing critics that cite the security issues as a reason avoid the cloud. The recent NSA scandal did not help things.
In reading the report, you’ll find that 31 percent of the respondents, from seven countries — the United States, Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, Japan, and the United Kingdom — said they expected to move to “the cloud” within the next two years. A bit surprising, 35 percent of the companies surveyed said their firm’s security exposure was worse as a result of moving to the cloud, or, they view it as something that will be worse once they make the migration.
The results of this survey bring to light the core issue that cloud computing is indeed the direction for most enterprises. Although most view the security issues as not yet resolved, the cost and efficiency advantages are perhaps more compelling than the perceived risks.
