Who is ultimately responsible for data security in the cloud?

by Catalin Cosoi - Chief Security Strategist at Bitdefender - Tuesday, 24 June 2014.
 
A recent report following Infosecurity Europe 2014 suggested that 43 per cent of organisations had no enterprise visibility or control into whether employees were putting sensitive data into the cloud. Furthermore, a new survey has shown that almost half of firms say they already, or plan to, run their company from the cloud. Both of these findings clearly demonstrate just how integral the cloud is becoming to businesses.

With increased reliance on cloud computing and so much data being entrusted to it, the question must be asked: how do cloud providers ensure that business data is secure and where does responsibility for data security ultimately lie?
 
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