{"id":13479,"date":"2015-04-07T23:58:29","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T23:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2015\/apr\/08\/majority-firms-say-they-arent-confident-responding-cloud-based-data-threats\/"},"modified":"2015-04-07T23:58:29","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T23:58:29","slug":"majority-of-firms-say-they-arent-confident-in-responding-to-cloud-based-data-threats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/majority-of-firms-say-they-arent-confident-in-responding-to-cloud-based-data-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Majority of firms say they aren\u2019t confident in responding to cloud-based data threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(c)iStock.com\/Imilian<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If data stored in the cloud is under threat, what would you do: fight the fire or hide under the bed and hope everything goes away? The majority of respondents in a recent survey admitted they would do the latter.<\/p>\n<p>The research, commissioned by Informatica and conducted by the Ponemon Institute, found 60% of global respondents were &ldquo;not confident&rdquo; they had the ability to proactively respond to cloud-based data threats. 80% said not knowing if sensitive or confidential information could be exposed represents a significant security risk.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the statistics were particularly eye-opening:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>65% of respondents said not knowing the location of sensitive or confidential data &ldquo;kept them up at night&rdquo;, and was more of a fear than hackers (25%) and employee mistakes (18%)<\/li>\n<li>Only 19% of organisations polled have a common process for implementing new controls and preventative measures in the presence of a new threat<\/li>\n<li>Just over one in five (21%) respondents said they would be able to detect a breach all the time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One aspect of the research the majority of respondents agree on is the use of automated solutions for discovering where sensitive data has proliferated &ndash; three quarters (73%) believe automated solutions would make their company&rsquo;s data security activities more effective.<\/p>\n<p>Recent surveys on the state of cloud security are still providing negative, nerve-jangling results. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2015\/mar\/26\/compliance-remains-key-cloud-security-challenge-according-ciphercloud-report\/\">A CipherCloud assessment on cloud data protection<\/a> found compliance and auditing privacy was the biggest security challenge associated with cloud computing. Compliance (64%) was the primary concern, followed by unprotected data for documents (32%).<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, 90% of users polled in the LinkedIn Information Security group said they were either <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2015\/mar\/10\/organisations-are-aggressively-adopting-cloud-cant-find-right-security-roadmap\/\">&ldquo;very&rdquo; or &ldquo;moderately&rdquo; concerned about public cloud security.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s worth noting as well that Informatica isn&rsquo;t releasing the survey information out of the goodness of their heart either. The company is also launching Informatica Secure@Source, a solution which enables enterprises to take a data-centric approach to information security. You can find out more about that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.informatica.com\/products\/data-security\/secure-at-source.html#fbid=kYzCeRhanYt\">here<\/a>, and more on the Ponemon Institute report <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/informaticacorp\/infagraphic-ponemon-state-of-data-centric-security\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(c)iStock.com\/Imilian<br \/>\nIf data stored in the cloud is under threat, what would you do: fight the fire or hide under the bed and hope everything goes away? The majority of respondents in a recent survey admitted they would do the latter.<br \/>\nThe research, co&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13480,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13479\/revisions\/13480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}