{"id":5916,"date":"2013-02-15T00:38:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T00:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2013\/feb\/15\/companies-afraid-move-cloud-because-government-snooping\/"},"modified":"2013-02-15T00:38:21","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T00:38:21","slug":"companies-afraid-to-move-to-the-cloud-because-of-government-snooping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/companies-afraid-to-move-to-the-cloud-because-of-government-snooping\/","title":{"rendered":"Companies afraid to move to the cloud because of government snooping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cloud security is once again on the agenda after a report from Lieberman Research showed that nearly half of IT professionals were wary of keeping sensitive data in the cloud due to government intervention.<\/p>\n<p>The survey was conducted at November&rsquo;s Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) Congress and found that the majority of respondents prefer to keep their most sensitive data on private networks rather than on the cloud.<\/p>\n<p>Other top-line findings were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Nearly nine in 10 (88%) of IT professionals believe some cloudy data could be lost, stolen or corrupted<\/li>\n<li>Less than half of respondents (46%) believe that moving to the cloud has increased their IT security<\/li>\n<li>Yet 56% think migrating to the cloud has saved money, and 86% think their move to the cloud has been successful overall<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&ldquo;There are a number of reasons why so many IT professionals are apprehensive about storing corporate data in the cloud,&rdquo; writes &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloud security is once again on the agenda after a report from Lieberman Research showed that nearly half of IT professionals were wary of keeping sensitive data in the cloud due to government intervention.<br \/>\nThe survey was conducted at November&rsquo;s &#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-5916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5916","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=5916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}