Does your organization fall under any compliance regulation? Compliance may once become a stumbling block between cloud providers and the authorities. While storing sensitive data externally is prohibited by some industry standards, compliant companies would always have limited opportunities when choosing cloud deployment models.
These organizations are more likely to deploy a hybrid cloud model and tend to value IT service providers that are able to offer
compliance-as-a-service and help their clients meet compliance requirements and pass compliance audits. Cloud or IT service providers, in their turn, started to see significant value in helping customers pass compliance. 60% of providers included compliance-as-a-service to their offering for customers.
For all the advances of cloud storage technology like cost reduce and easy data access, security and loss of physical control over data are still the main concern associated with cloud. 65% of companies that store data in cloud express fears about internet connection, compliance and disaster recovery issues.
Both SMBs and large enterprises report that they used to store information that falls under compliance regulation in cloud. Most frequent compliance risk associated with cloud computing is inability to provide evidence of data security and statement of IT changes to IT auditors.
Top three measures that can companies achieve compliance in cloud are improvement in internal IT auditing, regular IT infrastructure monitoring and constant evaluation of the state of IT security.
Infographics is made up based on the 2015 Netwrix Cloud Security Survey.
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