The Intel Security Group has released a new report, "Building Trust In A Cloud Sky - The State of Cloud Adoption", dedicated to...
And 'the comparison between the surveys of 2015 and 2016 to suggest it, says Raj Samani (Intel Security CTO - EMEA). The professionals interviewed two years ago affirmed in 51% of cases to lean on private cloud platforms. In 2016, the number dropped by 27%.
[The speed with which the value has collapsed is quite amazing]. [...] There's a lot more confidence in the cloud and certainly more confidence in the public cloud
How it is however motivated this turnaround?
Than in the past, says Samani, companies are much more oriented to public infrastructure, not only because of the level of maturity reached by the technologies but also of greater transparency adopted by the cloud provider. Analysts say this means that the cloud is not suddenly become safer (it already was - even if it appears as an oversimplification ed) but rather providers present and "advertise" more clearly the procedures and systems used to protect online platforms and customers - a recent example of this approach is the series of themed security post published on the Google Cloud Platform blog (security management, hypervisor).
The distrust was fueled by stereotypes and prejudices, so much so that the public cloud has never enjoyed a good reputation, continues Samani:
For qualsisi type of sensitive information it is better not to use the public cloud. You can not trust. And 'more secure if it is in your cloud environment. To be honest I do not think that these arguments can withstand the test of facts, it is therefore a good thing that now even the organizations we understand it
Confidence with room for improvement
The rate of adoption still has room for improvement, say analysts. One major problem is the management of companies 'internal' security. More than half of respondents even stated that it had identified an infection malware in cloud based applications. A situation caused not by the low level of protection of the platforms as the inadequate training of company personnel, but not only.
And 'the delicate question which is referred to by the expression "shadow IT". The relative ease with which an employee can in fact be ordered and use any cloud service (eg storage) exposes the company to greater security risks, especially if there is a counterproductive habit of not refer to the IT department. What if instead the latter not to adequately perform their duties? And 'a question (not translate to preserve the communicative effectiveness) which puts on closing the same Samani:
The question is: Are IT seen as an enabler or disabler? [...] That's a question they have to ask Themselves.
