{"id":2970,"date":"2012-05-14T07:00:46","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T15:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=2970"},"modified":"2012-05-14T07:00:46","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T15:00:46","slug":"cloud-security-lax-security-controls-make-many-organizations-vulnerable-to-breaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/cloud-security-lax-security-controls-make-many-organizations-vulnerable-to-breaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Security: Lax Security Controls Make Many Organizations Vulnerable to Breaches"},"content":{"rendered":"

What you don’t know, or don’t investigate deeply enough, can hurt you. \u00a0Especially when it comes to security controls for cloud computing. \u00a0Many companies are entrusting highly sensitive and confidential data to the cloud, but they haven’t dug deeply enough into the security details of their cloud environment.<\/p>\n

Chris Potter<\/a>, PwC information security partner, \u00a0said <\/a>that “Businesses are putting their faith in third parties to take care of their data but many are taking a laissez faire attitude to the security element. Not only are they often completely leaving the security controls to third parties, they are not actually checking what controls those third parties have in place. \u00a0Small businesses may think that because their data is being hosted by a large cloud provider that good security controls will be in place, but this isn\u2019t necessarily the case. Companies should always check what security controls their providers are operating.”<\/p>\n

When moving your data to the cloud, you should’t assume. \u00a0More organizations are moving data into the cloud. \u00a0PwC found that 73 percent of organizations use at least one outsourced cloud service. \u00a0But only 38 percent of those organizations are encrypting the data that is being stored there. \u00a0And 56 percent of organizations that host data in the cloud have never done any checks on the security provided by their vendor. \u00a0Potter commented that “Rather than relying on contingency plans, organisations would be in a much more powerful position if they were to secure their data in the first place.”<\/p>\n

Potter\u00a0told\u00a0InfoSecurity<\/a> online journal that\u00a0“I think it comes down to two things. \u00a0First, there\u2019s a basic lack of understanding of some of the risks involved; and second, there\u2019s an element of wishful thinking: if I haven\u2019t been burnt, then I\u2019m OK \u2013 maybe this security risk is all just hype…\u00a0What happens is that when people see a shiny new toy, they go off and use it \u2013 but it\u2019s only when they actually experience a major security breach in their organization that they stop to make the necessary security changes.”<\/p>\n

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What you don’t know, or don’t investigate deeply enough, can hurt you. \u00a0Especially when it comes to security controls for cloud computing. \u00a0Many companies are entrusting highly sensitive and confidential data to the cloud, but they haven’t dug deeply enough…<\/span><\/p>\n

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