Organizations blame their own staff for cloud security incidents

When systems are in the cloud, 45 percent of organizations perceive their own employees to be the biggest security risk, according to a new report. According to user behavior specialist Netwrix, even though the majority of attacks they experienced over the year were external, organizations blame their own IT staff (39 percent) and business users (33 percent) as much as or more than their cloud providers (33 percent). The report shows the most common cloud security concerns are the risk of unauthorized access (69 percent), the risk of malware infiltration (50 percent) and companies’ inability to monitor the activity of… [Continue Reading]