{"id":5466,"date":"2013-01-21T00:31:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T00:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/jan\/21\/symantec-survey-examines-increase-rogue-clouds\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T00:31:15","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T00:31:15","slug":"symantec-survey-examines-increase-in-rogue-clouds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/symantec-survey-examines-increase-in-rogue-clouds\/","title":{"rendered":"Symantec survey examines increase in \u201crogue clouds\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new research report from Symantec has warned against the use of &lsquo;rogue&rsquo; clouds for best practice.<\/p>\n<p>The survey, entitled &lsquo;Avoiding the Hidden Costs of Cloud&rsquo;, spoke to IT execs at 3,236 organisations across nearly 30 countries worldwide and found that there was a link between using rogue clouds and losing confidential information, resulting in hidden costs.<\/p>\n<p>A rogue cloud is one which is unauthorised, or as Symantec put it, &ldquo;business groups implementing public cloud applications that are not managed by or integrated into the company&rsquo;s IT infrastructure.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In a related blog post, Symantec came up with four tips to ensure avoiding these cost traps:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Focus cloud policies on information and people rather than technologies and platforms<\/li>\n<li>Educate, monitor and enforce policies<\/li>\n<li>Embrace platform-agnostic tools<\/li>\n<li>Remove all duplicate data in the cloud<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The results of the survey showed that rogue clouds were an issue in three quarters of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new research report from Symantec has warned against the use of &lsquo;rogue&rsquo; clouds for best practice.<br \/>\nThe survey, entitled &lsquo;Avoiding the Hidden Costs of Cloud&rsquo;, spoke to IT execs at 3,236 organisations across nearly 30 countries w&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5466","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}