Growing Reliance on Cloud Brings New Security Challenges

There was a time when cloud computing was only a subset of IT infrastructure, and cloud security related to a fairly particular set of activities. The contemporary reality is somewhat different: enterprises are increasingly reliant on cloud technology, and cloud security has evolved into a far more difficult operation. Cloud computing is rapidly being used by businesses to create new apps, decrease expenses, and support corporate processes. According to Fernando Montenegro, senior principal analyst for infrastructure security at Omdia, one in every four enterprises already has the bulk of their workloads on the cloud, and 44% of their workloads are already running in some type of public cloud. Read More…