Categories: Anti-malware

Public, Hybrid Cloud Security Fears Abound

By: Kelly Sheridan

Most CISOs say encryption is the most effective security tool for data in the public cloud, but only one in six encrypt all data stored there.

 

The transition to the public cloud is a major concern for security leaders, but many haven’t adopted the tools to address their biggest fears.

Security firm Bitdefender polled 1,051 IT security pros to learn more about the pressures of cloud migration as part of its report “Virtualization’s hidden traps: Security has become a battlefield for CISOs.” Respondents represent large businesses (1000+ PCs and data centers) based in the United States, the UK, France, Italy, Sweden, Denmark, and Germany.

Senior eThreat analyst Bogdan Botezatu says the high number of respondents concerned with public cloud security doesn’t hold within the bigger picture: when asked about the most concerning data points, 22% of respondents encrypt already-migrated data.

 

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