{"id":3682,"date":"2013-04-12T07:00:34","date_gmt":"2013-04-12T15:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.formtek.com\/blog\/?p=3682"},"modified":"2013-04-12T07:00:34","modified_gmt":"2013-04-12T15:00:34","slug":"cloud-computing-security-it-leaders-too-hands-off-when-it-comes-to-cloud-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/formtek.com\/blog\/cloud-computing-security-it-leaders-too-hands-off-when-it-comes-to-cloud-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud Computing Security: IT Leaders Too 'Hands Off' When it Comes to Cloud Security"},"content":{"rendered":"

About half of organizations have policies in place that for vetting cloud computing applications for possible security risks before deploying them, according to a report from the Ponemon Institute<\/a> on the state of Cloud User Security in 2013. \u00a0The group also summarized the findings of their study in an infographic available here.<\/a> That is an improvement, although a relatively small one. \u00a0The number of organizations saying that risks need to be assessed prior to cloud adoption has jumped about 10 percent this year compared to the results of a similar survey taken in 2010.<\/p>\n

But CA Technologies, sponsor of the report, says that cloud risk assessment isn’t really yet at a level that is ‘good enough’. \u00a0The results of the Ponemon report found that improvements in cloud security over the past two years have really only been incremental. \u00a0Mike Denning<\/a>, general manager of the Security group at CA Technologies, said that “Cloud security struggles to get past a grade of 50 percent when it comes to best practices, including the percentage of organizations that say they engage their security teams in determining the use of cloud services.”<\/p>\n

The report notes that many IT leaders are ‘alarmingly hands off’ when it comes to both SaaS and IaaS security:<\/p>\n