{"id":39580,"date":"2019-09-04T10:40:12","date_gmt":"2019-09-04T10:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/?guid=b85ddeb489d153a1b0fe0f6d2382fc23"},"modified":"2019-09-04T10:40:12","modified_gmt":"2019-09-04T10:40:12","slug":"cisos-now-say-cloud-technology-is-just-as-safe-as-on-prem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/cisos-now-say-cloud-technology-is-just-as-safe-as-on-prem\/","title":{"rendered":"CISOs now say cloud technology is \u2018just as safe\u2019 as on-prem"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n Keumars Afifi-Sabet<\/a><\/span>
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The majority of security professionals now consider single-cloud technology to be just as safe, if not safer, than on-premise storage – while multi-cloud environments<\/a> are deemed the riskiest setups, according to research.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cloud technology has seen an explosion in adoption rates among businesses in recent years but has been traditionally considered a riskier option for businesses<\/a> than on-premise storage.<\/p>\n

The majority (61%) of chief information security officers (CISOs), however, have indicated that while security concerns remain, businesses running single-cloud configurations are at no more risk than they would be powering their organisations through on-premise data centres.<\/p>\n

There’s also a strong appetite for cloud adoption, with 88% of respondents to a Nominet survey reporting their organisations are either currently engaging in, or have plans to, adopting Software as a Service (SaaS) products.<\/p>\n

The research questioned almost 300 CISOs, CTOs and CIOs from large organisations with more than 2,500 employees directly responsible for overseeing cyber security practices.<\/p>\n

Some 71% of respondents said they were either moderately, very or extremely concerned with the risk of cyber attack in cloud technology, but these concerns are generally matched by anxieties with on-premise systems.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, US respondents were almost twice as likely than CISOs based in the UK to suggest they were “extremely concerned” – 21% versus 13%. This could be based on a host of reasons, including differing compliance regimes, threat landscapes and media coverage of security breaches, the report suggested.<\/p>\n

“Security has traditionally always been cited as a barrier to cloud adoption, so it is significant that the perceived risk gap between cloud and on-premise has disappeared,” said Stuart Reed Nominet’s vice president of cyber security.<\/p>\n

“It is evident that security concerns are no longer an insurmountable barrier to cloud deployments given the high adoption rate of cloud services.”<\/p>\n

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He added: “And, as we move into the ‘cloud era’, arguably security teams need to channel their concern into finding solutions that work with the cloud, just as they have been doing in an on-premise environment.”<\/p>\n

Adopting a multi-cloud approach, meanwhile, is generally seen as more risk than hybrid and single-cloud approaches.<\/p>\n

CISOs adopting such a configuration within their organisations were twice as likely to have suffered a data breach over the past 12 months; 52% versus 24% of single-cloud and hybrid-cloud<\/a> users.<\/p>\n

Organisations adopting a multi-cloud approach were also found to generally suffer a greater number of data breaches, with 69% of respondents reporting 11-30 breaches compared with 19% for single-cloud adopters and 13% for hybrid cloud adopters.<\/p>\n

“When it comes to ensuring resilience and being able to source ‘best-in-class’ services, using multiple vendors makes sense,” Reed continued.<\/p>\n

“However, from a security perspective, the muti-cloud approach also increases exposure to risk as there are a greater number of parties handling an organisation’s sensitive data.<\/p>\n

“This is exactly why an eye must be kept on integration and a concerted effort be made to gain the visibility needed to counter threats across all different types of environments.” <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Keumars Afifi-Sabet<\/p>\n

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