Cloud Adoption

Cloud Security

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Cloud migration journey is more complex than anticipated for innovation and efficiency

Two-thirds of large enterprises are not realizing the full benefits of their cloud migration journeys identifying security and the complexity of business and operational change as barriers, according to Accenture. Based on a survey of 200 senior IT professionals from large businesses worldwide, the report — “Perspectives on Cloud Outcomes: Expectation vs. Reality” — suggests…

Cloud Security

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The security challenges of managing complex cloud environments

Holistic cloud visibility and control over increasingly complex environments are essential for successful deployments in various cloud scenarios, a Cloud Security Alliance and AlgoSec study reveals. The survey of 700 IT and security professionals aims to analyze and better understand the state of adoption and security in current hybrid cloud and multi-cloud security environments, including…

Network Security

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Government embracing digital transformation but struggling to implement data security

The push towards digital transformation in the U.S. government is putting sensitive data at risk, according to a Thales research conducted by analyst firm IDC. The 2019 Thales Data Threat Report – Federal Edition, indicates that as agencies embrace new technologies, such as multi-cloud deployments, they are struggling to implement proper data security. “As digital…

Cloud Security

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Security and compliance obstacles among the top challenges for cloud native adoption

Cloud native adoption has become an important trend among organizations as they move to embrace and employ a combination of cloud, containers, orchestration, and microservices to keep up with customers’ expectations and needs. To discover more about the motivations and challenges of companies adopting cloud native infrastructure, the O’Reilly “How Companies Adopt and Apply Cloud…

Cloud Security

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Cloud business initiatives accelerating faster than security teams’ ability to secure them

The speed of cloud business initiatives is hampering organizations’ ability to secure and manage hybrid environments, with security personnel often not included. The 2019 State of Hybrid Cloud Security survey by FireMon revealed 60% of respondents either agreed or strongly agreed that this was happening in their organizations. Additional key findings include: Only 56% of…

Cloud Security

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How are businesses facing the cybersecurity challenges of increasing cloud adoption?

Cloud services serve core functions essential to all aspects of business operations, but getting cloud security right is still a challenge for many organizations, the 2019 Cloud Threat Report by Oracle and KPMG has shown. The two companies have asked 450 cyber security and IT professionals from private and public-sector organizations in the US, Canada,…

Cloud Security

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21% of all files in the cloud contain sensitive data

McAfee released its Cloud Adoption and Risk Report, which analyzed billions of events in anonymized customers production cloud use to assess the current state of cloud deployments and to uncover risks. The report revealed that nearly a quarter of the data in the cloud can be categorized as sensitive, putting an organization at risk if…

Cloud Security

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Organizations feel ready to put highly sensitive data in the cloud

Many corporate employees are ready to store highly sensitive data in the cloud. However, many are still skeptical of the security posture of their own organizations, according to an Armor poll that fielded responses from 37,000 Twitter users over a 13-week period. Additional key findings show that reducing the cost of managing security, maintaining compliance,…