{"id":20938,"date":"2016-03-04T11:15:34","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T11:15:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2016\/mar\/04\/cloud-becoming-more-secure-its-still-costly-keep-it-way\/"},"modified":"2016-03-04T11:15:34","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T11:15:34","slug":"the-cloud-is-becoming-more-secure-but-its-still-costly-to-keep-it-that-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/the-cloud-is-becoming-more-secure-but-its-still-costly-to-keep-it-that-way\/","title":{"rendered":"The cloud is becoming more secure \u2013 but it\u2019s still costly to keep it that way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(c)iStock.com\/RyanKing999<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Fears over cloud security will continue to linger, but the situation is improving: almost two thirds (64%) of enterprises polled by analyst house Clutch argue cloud infrastructure is more secure than legacy systems.<\/p>\n<p>36% of the 300 respondents polled said cloud was much more secure than legacy infrastructure, compared to 28% who argued it was &ldquo;somewhat&rdquo; more secure. Only 11% of respondents argued cloud was in any way less secure, with 1% saying it was &lsquo;much less&rsquo;.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the majority of respondents don&rsquo;t entirely trust their chosen vendor; three quarters of respondents say they add in their own security on top of the vendor&rsquo;s solution. Additional security measures enterprises put in range from data encryption (61%), to identity access policies (52%), and regular audits (48%). More than half of enterprises polled say they spend between $10,000 and $50,000 on these measures.<\/p>\n<p>Clutch argues cloud infrastructure offers three features which makes it more secure for enterprises; the infrastructure is monitored at all times, the security features are multi-faceted, and central management ensures security systems remain up to date at all times. &ldquo;Legacy systems are more difficult to keep updated because enterprises may have to go around to several hundred thousand platforms to check and update security systems,&rdquo; said cloud analyst David Linthicum. &ldquo;It&rsquo;s easier for legacy systems to fall behind in terms of updates.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Yet security remains the biggest issue companies have encountered with cloud infrastructure in the past year. 31% of those polled cited it, ahead of training (28%), increased cost (28%), and downtime (25%). For Jason Reichl, CEO of Go Nimbly, IT teams struggle when more transparency is required. &ldquo;Because of this, the IT team needs to build new security policies to create the impression that a business is investing a lot more resources in security,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;Truthfully though, a company should already have had these security measures in place.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>You can find out more about the report <a href=\"https:\/\/clutch.co\/cloud\/resources\/security-trends-in-enterprise-cloud-computing\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(c)iStock.com\/RyanKing999<br \/>\nFears over cloud security will continue to linger, but the situation is improving: almost two thirds (64%) of enterprises polled by analyst house Clutch argue cloud infrastructure is more secure than legacy systems.<br \/>\n36% of the&#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-20938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20938","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=20938"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22851,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20938\/revisions\/22851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}