Perception of cloud security challenges differs across industries

The cloud brings many benefits to businesses, but it also brings with it risks, the biggest of which concerns the security of information. A new survey from cloud governance specialist Netwrix looks at how different sectors and geographies deal with cloud security. There are interesting differences in the perception of risk across industries. Malware is most feared by health care organizations (61 percent) and government bodies (60 percent). But 62 percent of educational institutions see their own employees to be the biggest threat to cloud security, the largest share among all the industries surveyed. This result is explained by the… [Continue Reading]