Cloud security is an issue, but it won't 'kill' the cloud

 

 

Despite risks, cloud adoption isn't slowing down

 In the tech media, there is an IT "Game of Thrones" in progress, but the "killing" is mostly unwarranted. Supposedly, security will kill the cloud, the cloud will kill the CIO, Apple may kill passwords and, of course, BYOD and IT will try to kill each other.

While this might make a riveting HBO series (for a very niche audience), these are mostly empty threats - especially the death of the cloud. We've witnessed enough cyber attacks and privacy violations to know that security is an issue for IT systems on and off the cloud. Although many enterprises are skittish about the cloud, facts on the ground have effectively ended the debate.

The average company used 831 cloud services in Q3 2014, according to Skyhigh Networks' Cloud Adoption & Risk Report, which surveyed 13 million users from 350 organizations. Furthermore, Gigaom Research's recent survey of 500 IT decision-makers found that 71% of strategic buyers now use SaaS products, citing scalability, cost and business agility as the most important drivers. To be fair, 65% of respondents also said that security is the most important "inhibitor" to adopting cloud services.

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