More and more companies are transferring sensitive data to the cloud, according to the latest report from Thales e-Security and the Ponemon Institute on cloudy data encryption.

Over half (53%) of survey respondents said they were transferring such data, with a further 31% stating they were looking to push ahead in the next 12 months.

The report, one in a series of overall encryption trends, concludes that organisations, instead of not noticing the cloud security warnings, or even simply ignoring them, are aware that their security is being threatened, but are still pushing ahead with change.

35% of those polled said that moving sensitive and confidential data to the cloud has “decreased their security posture”, with 15% saying the opposite. The previous year’s survey revealed that 39% felt cloudy data transfer had weakened security, which, although hollow, is something of a victory.

Similarly, companies feel more confident in cloud …