Putting Trust Into the Cloud: an EU/ENISA Project
A study undertaken by Ponemon for Axway demonstrates the depth of corporate concern over the use of public cloud services. The research questioned 621 IT professionals about the use of public cloud services, and found that 89% are unlikely to know if data is lost through the cloud, 80% are concerned about negative consequences from the loss of intellectual property, 69% probably don't know whether staff are using the public cloud, 66% consider the practice risky, and nearly 50% believe popular cloud-sharing services are unsuitable for business.