{"id":7516,"date":"2013-05-23T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-23T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/blog-hub\/2013\/may\/23\/7-causes-of-security-paralysis-cloud-based-cures\/"},"modified":"2013-05-23T14:45:00","modified_gmt":"2013-05-23T14:45:00","slug":"7-causes-of-security-paralysis-and-cloud-based-cures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/7-causes-of-security-paralysis-and-cloud-based-cures\/","title":{"rendered":"7 causes of security paralysis and cloud-based cures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over and over again we are pummeled with statistics on how risk is growing in disproportion to security readiness.<\/p>\n<p>-91% of companies have experienced at least one IT security event from an external source.<\/p>\n<p>-90% of all cyber crime costs are those caused by web attacks, malicious code and malicious insiders.<\/p>\n<p>-40% reported rogue cloud issues (shadow IT) experienced the exposure of confidential information as a result<\/p>\n<p>-34% share passwords with their co-workers for applications like FedEx, Twitter, Staples, LinkedIn.<\/p>\n<p>These are real stats from studies by like Gartner, Forrester, Ponemon, Kaspersky, Eschelon and others. But there&rsquo;s one stat that really curls my hair (what little of it is left):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Due to complexity, over 70% of organizations still not adequately securing critical systems. <\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wow. It&rsquo;s a staggering number. But it got me to thinking why. What is causing this universal security paralysis? Now I&rsquo;m not proclaiming securipocolypse &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over and over again we are pummeled with statistics on how risk is growing in disproportion to security readiness.<br \/>\n-91% of companies have experienced at least one IT security event from an external source.<br \/>\n-90% of all cyber crime costs are those caused&#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-7516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7516","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=7516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}