On-premises workloads have more security incidents than those in the public cloud

According to a new survey, workloads run on in-house systems suffer 51 percent more security incidents than those on public cloud services. The study from cloud security and compliance company Alert Logic analyzed more 2 million security incidents captured by its intrusion detection systems over 18 months. It finds customers running applications on public cloud platforms experienced an average 405 security incidents over the period while on-premises customers experienced 612. Hosted private cloud had a 69 percent higher incident rate (684) and hybrid cloud a worrying 141 percent higher (977). But while the public cloud is relatively safe, the results… [Continue Reading]