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 A survey by Infosecurity Europe of 470 organizations has found that 75 percent of them intend to reallocate or increase their budgets to secure cloud computing and software as a service within the next 12 months. Further, interviews conducted by Infosecurity Europe with a panel of 20 chief information security officers (CISOs) of large enterprises which covered the topic revealed that they are concerned about availability and security aspects of software services in the cloud. They were especially concerned about the lack of standards for working in the cloud, SAAS and secure internet access, all of them said that they would welcome the development of guidelines in this area.
“This is the clearest indication that SaaS is well and truly here to stay. With any new technology however a risk assessment must be undertaken before allowing your data to be stored offsite (with a vendor). After all, you can transfer the burden of managing systems, but not the liability if something goes wrong," commented Raj Samani of ISSA.
www.infosec.co.uk
•Date:19th February 2009• Region: UK •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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