Majority of businesses not protecting their sensitive data in the cloud

The latest cloud security study from Thales shows that 83 percent of businesses are still failing to encrypt half of the sensitive data they store in the cloud. This is despite the fact that 40 percent of organizations have experienced a cloud-based data breach in the past 12 months. In the survey of over 2,500 IT executives, conducted by 451 Research, 57 percent of respondents globally report that they make use of two or more cloud infrastructure providers, whilst almost a quarter (24 percent) of organizations say that the majority of their workloads and data now reside in the cloud.… [Continue Reading]