Tag: cloud security

IT managers worried about cloud security  

New research has found that security is the most significant concern for IT professionals considering, or are already using, multi-cloud strategies – topping the list of worries amongst both US and UK respondents.

Cloudy Ensono released new research into the wide array of challenges facing US and UK IT leaders’ multi-cloud strategy. After security, UK IT leaders’ top fears for their multi-cloud strategy were governance and cost optimisation.

US respondents were more worried about cost optimisation and maintaining a positive end-user experience next on the list.

Humans cause cloud security issues

Claranet has called for more focus on the human end of cloud security.

Steve Smith, senior site reliability engineer and AWS team lead at Claranet

“The cloud security challenges highlighted in this report have little to do with the platform itself, but everything to do with the people using it and, in our experience, people are the biggest weakness here. The major cloud providers like AWS set a lot of sensible defaults designed to support configuration – for example, S3 buckets are now private by default – but unfortunately, it’s straightforward to get things wrong if you don’t know how to use the platform,” he said.