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[Article published in The Review & written by Davey Winder]
The
global market for enterprise cloud-based services will grow from US$12.1
billion (€ 9.4 billion) in 2010 to US$35.6 billion (€ 27.5 billion) by
2015, according to the report ‘Enterprise Cloud Services: Worldwide
Forecast 2010-2015’ from Analysys Mason. Yet while tech-savvy
enterprises such as Amazon, Cisco, IBM, Google and Microsoft have well
and truly embraced cloud computing, many businesses have resisted, held
back by fear. The fear of data security breaches, that is. The Mimecast
‘Cloud Adoption Survey’, published in July 2010, suggests that business
perception hasn’t changed greatly in the past 12 months. While 57% of
those who had adopted cloud services said that security had improved as
a result, 62% of those who hadn’t still insisted that storing data on
external servers was a ‘significant’ risk.
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Defining the cloud
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 Here to stay
Cloud computing is here to stay: that much is clear. The important thing now is to develop cloud security to meet the demands of a growing market. |
 Identity management
In the old days, security meant putting a firewall around your physical network in your offices... |
 The weakest link
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 Ring of fire
But George Hess, CEO and co-founder of application security specialist Art of Defence doesn’t agree that the issues lie with the user. |
 Fighting the fear
Cloud security has come a long way in the past 18 months.... |
