{"id":33904,"date":"2018-03-26T10:04:50","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T10:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2018\/mar\/26\/more-cloud-security-education-needed-shared-responsibility-message-getting-through\/"},"modified":"2018-03-26T10:04:50","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T10:04:50","slug":"more-cloud-security-education-needed-but-shared-responsibility-message-getting-through","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/more-cloud-security-education-needed-but-shared-responsibility-message-getting-through\/","title":{"rendered":"More cloud security education needed \u2013 but shared responsibility message getting through"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Organisations still believe their information is safer on-premise rather than in the cloud – and it’s a mindset that IT security firm Barracuda Networks wants to change.<\/p>\n

According to the company, who polled more than 600 respondents around their experiences with cloud security, more than four in five (83%) said they were concerned about deploying firewalls in the cloud, while more than half (57%) of EMEA-based respondents said their on-premises security was superior to cloud.<\/p>\n

When it came to the struggle around firewalls and cloud, two in five (39%) said pricing and licensing was ‘not appropriate’ for a cloud model, while a third (34%) argued ‘lack of integration prevents cloud automation’. Almost all (93%) respondents who had adopted DevOps-based practices said they faced challenges with security integration.<\/p>\n

Evidently there are still challenges which need to be overcome – but what about the positives? Those who have taken the plunge on cloud-specific firewalls say the primary benefits are integration with cloud management, monitoring and automation capabilities, as well as being easy to deploy and configure by cloud developers.<\/p>\n

What’s more – if this particular set of respondents are anything to go by – the shared responsibility cloud security message is getting out there. 71% of EMEA respondents said cloud security was a responsibility shared with cloud vendors, with only 19% believing it is the vendor’s responsibility alone.<\/p>\n

These figures certainly make for better reading when compared to a Barracuda report from July last year<\/a>, which expressed concern over organisations’ misinformation. Yet Chris Hill, Barracuda director of public cloud business development, argues education is still needed in other areas.<\/p>\n

“There still seems to be a lack of understanding in cloud security, and a misplaced belief that on-premises security is a lot stronger,” wrote Hill in a blog post<\/a>. “One thing is for sure: as the move to cloud only increases in pace, for organisations that are used to operating under traditional data centre architecture, moving to the cloud will require a new way of thinking when they approach security.”<\/p>\n

You can read the full survey results here (email required).<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Organisations still believe their information is safer on-premise rather than in the cloud – and it’s a mindset that IT security firm Barracuda Networks wants to change.
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