Security pros don't know the number of cloud apps in their networks

  • 19 September 2014
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By HNS Staff/ Posted on 19 September 2014.
 
In what could be called a tale of perception versus reality, the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) released the results of a new survey that found a significant difference between the number of cloud-based applications IT and security professionals believe to be running in their environments, and the number reported by cloud application vendors.

The survey, which included responses from IT and security professionals from around the globe representing a variety of industry verticals and enterprise sizes, was conducted by the CSA. The aim of the survey was to gain insight and understand the perceptions of how enterprises are using cloud apps, what kind of data is moving to and through those apps, and what that means in terms of risks.

Among other things, the survey found that 54 percent of IT and security professionals said they have 10 or fewer cloud-based applications running in their organization, with 87 percent indicating that they had 50 or fewer applications running in the cloud (with a weighted average of 23 apps per organization). These estimates are far lower than commonly reported by vendors and research reports, which count more than 500 cloud apps present, on average, per enterprise.
 
Help Net Security/ full article here/ http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=17383

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