Security concerns hold back Cloud adoption

Findings show that security concerns are a major concern for the majority of businesses considering adopting cloud services.

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Check Point is releasing the findings of a survey of 200 cybersecurity and IT professionals, showing that security concerns are the biggest barrier to businesses taking up the scalability, flexibility and cost-efficiency benefits of migrations to cloud environments.
 
Security risks were found to be the biggest factor holding back faster adoption of cloud computing.  93% of respondents said they were ‘very concerned’ (56%) or ‘concerned’ (37%) about cloud security issues.
 
When questioned as to the specific threats they are concerned about within cloud environments, 80% of respondents admitted they are ‘very concerned’ or ‘concerned’ about ransomware hijacking corporate data in the cloud.  In addition to ransomware, the biggest threats to cloud environments were: 
·         Unauthorized access (67%)
·         Data leakage (65%)
·         Denial-of-service attacks (52%) 
·         Insecure interfaces / APIs (48%)
·         Posting confidential data by employees / malicious insiders (33%)
·         State-sponsored cyberattacks (32%)
 
When asked ‘Which of the following security capabilities would most increase your confidence in adopting cloud environments?’ respondents stated:
·         Visibility, reporting, auditing & alerting on security events across all platforms (74%)
·         Effective mapping of security controls for internally-hosted applications to the cloud infrastructure (51%)
·         Consistent security policies and enforcement across cloud platforms (48%)
 
Check Point asked respondents participants which security controls are the most effective methods to protect data in the cloud.  The answers were:
·         Data encryption (72%)
·         Traffic encryption or VPNs (60%)
·         Access control/user authorization (56%)
·         Network monitoring, reporting and forensics (53%)
·         Intrusion prevention systems (44%)
·         Data leakage prevention (41%)
·         Firewalls  (38%)
 
Don Meyer, head of cloud and data center product marketing at Check Point said: “Perceived security risk is the biggest factor holding back faster adoption of cloud computing. The overwhelming benefits of cloud computing should drive organizations and security teams to find a way to ‘get cloud done’.  This is a prime example of where security can have a profound impact on enabling business transformation, by giving organizations full visibility into all security events, along with consistent security protections across both on-premise and cloud environments.”
 
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