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By Laton McCartney
In the rush to realize the cost savings offered by cloud computing, many companies are foregoing safety concerns. That's the conclusion of a just released survey conducted by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by Symantec.
"Despite widespread interest in adopting cloud computing technologies, many organizations are 'flying blind' with respect to making them secure, potentially putting their business operations, company data and customer information at risk," said Justin Somaini, Symantec's chief information security officer.
What makes this situation potentially even more dangerous is that frequently this move to the cloud is being carried out without the approval or even the knowledge of the CIO and/or CSO and the security concerns involved. "Over and over we see a tendency for organizations to rush to adopt a new technology without fully understanding the security implications, and it's no different with cloud computing," Larry Ponemon, chairman and founder of the Ponemon Institute, told CIOZone. "Our research shows a disturbing lack of concern for strategic thinking with cloud computing. We know that organizations with a CIO/CSO with oversight responsibility for critical processes are a lot better prepared for managing the information security risk."
The survey was based on responses from 637 senior IT practitioners working for medium to large U.S. companies that have adopted cloud platforms.
Here are nine factors that CIOs and CSOs should be aware of as their companies move to the cloud.
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