{"id":15519,"date":"2015-06-28T23:54:38","date_gmt":"2015-06-28T23:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2015\/jun\/29\/cxo-view-were-still-unconvinced-cloud-storage-security\/"},"modified":"2015-06-28T23:54:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-28T23:54:38","slug":"the-cxo-view-were-still-unconvinced-on-cloud-storage-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/the-cxo-view-were-still-unconvinced-on-cloud-storage-security\/","title":{"rendered":"The CXO view: We\u2019re still unconvinced on cloud storage security"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Less than one in three delegates polled at the Infosec 2015 event in London believe the cloud is a safe storage solution for corporate data.<\/p>\n

The survey from digital encryption and USB specialist iStorage, which questioned more than 270 respondents including heads of IT, CIOs and CTOs, saw almost half (48%) say they do use cloud technology to store confidential information. 54% of those polled say they still use USB devices to store information.<\/p>\n

Over three quarters (78%) said they were currently aware of policies within their organisations covering data protection matters, while a similar number (75%) affirmed they knew who specifically was responsible for data protection within their firm. Yet the imminent EU data protection regulations – which this publication has recently covered<\/a> – caused more of a pain point. Only 50% of respondents said they understood what the regulations would mean for them individually and their organisations.<\/p>\n

John Michael, iStorage CEO, said: “Cloud technology may make life easier for mobile workers but it’s certainly not without its risks; it really should only be used to store encrypted, non-sensitive information.” He added: “Ultimately, the cloud concept refers to a physical data centre and as such users are very much reliant on trusting cloud providers to protect any information that they store in this way.”<\/p>\n

This is not a view that everyone agrees with, however. Kelly Stirman, VP strategy at MongoDB, spoke at the recent Cloud World Forum event on five tips for making success a reality in the cloud. Subtitled “escaping cloud cuckoo land”, Stirman blasted a few myths out of the water; one of which being the security of the cloud.<\/p>\n

“Cloud is not secure – [it’s] just not true,” he told CloudTech<\/em>. “Most of these guys are vastly more secure than any of us can design in our own systems.” He added: “People tend to object to cloud, their operation [team’s] obligation…because it’s not secure. No, this thing is incredibly secure, but your ops teams need to know how to configure to be secure where you need to be secure.”<\/p>\n

iStorage also argues that, for those who still like to use a USB to transport company information, robust encryption capabilities need to be fitted. By remarkable coincidence, the company is also hawking a new USB 3.0 drive, the datAshur SSD, with auto-lock features, self-destructing PIN and brute force protection.<\/p>\n

Regardless, despite cloud storage providers beefing up their business credentials – Box’s customer wins<\/a> with the US Department of Justice, Dropbox’s adoption of the ISO 27018 standard<\/a> – there still remains a fair amount of scepticism over the validity of cloud among the C-suite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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