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Now that the cloud is becoming secure enough for sensitive data, are cloud customers ready to hold up their end of a shared liability model?
Fear characterized the early days of cloud adoption – some of it justified and some purely sensational. The concept of sending data off the corporate network and thus outside of existing security technology spooked IT security professionals. But now that cloud has matured, one of the greatest barriers to adoption has become a people problem.
Times have changed and even former hold-outs in regulated industries have warmed to cloud technology. Last year, US Chief Information Officer Tony Scott called for organizations to “get to the cloud as fast as [they] can” for better security, and a recent survey (registration required) from the Cloud Security Alliance confirmed this attitude among rank and file IT professionals, with 64.9% of respondents describing cloud software as a service as secure or more secure than on-premises software.
Read the complete article at Cloud Security: It’s Become A People Problem