ESSENTIAL THINGS WE SHOULD KNOW ABOUT CLOUD SECURITY

Have you ever made a question whether the cloud is truly safe.  Here are necessary things you need to know about cloud security.

When mentioning the term "private cloud", we are talking about security. Surely, every time the cloud is brought up in the enterprise, the conversation to follow will be focused on how secure the cloud is, or not secure.  Some people would make you believe that the cloud is safer than on-premise. Whereas, others suppose that cloud is the least safe place that you can store your data.

Following are necessary things you should know about cloud security.

1. Storage is considered as the riskiest cloud app

When most customers think about the cloud, they tend to think about common/ popular cloud storage and backup services. For enterprises, cloud storage plays also an important role. However, it also presents its own challenges. According to over fifty percent of the respondents to a report talking about Cloud Usage: Risks and Opportunities from the Cloud Security Alliance, storage is listed as the most risky cloud application based on their definition of risk of organization.

2. The employees are your biggest threat

Some leaders of enterprises suppose that outside hackers are the biggest threat to security. However, they do not know that employees also pose an equal risk. According to the 2015 Data Breach Industry Forecast by Experian, employees caused almost 60% of security incidents in 2014. This is the result from employees' habits of working. Sometimes, they work remotely or use their personal mobile device to access confidentially sensitive materials outside of the company network.

3. Controlling adoption is a really difficult challenge

The increase of bring-your-own-device and bring-your-own-application trends lead to sneaking into organizations under the noses of IT leaders from many cloud services and tools. A survey which is conducted by The Register shows that fifty percent of respondents said that the biggest challenge related to cloud services is to get the opportunity to assess security before users adopt a service.

4. The security policies are not set by many organizations

25.5% of respondents don't have security policies or procedures in place to handle with data security in the cloud based on Cloud Usage. Moreover, 68.1% said that they do have security policies in place, but the remaining 6.4% didn't know if they do or do not have the correct policies in place.