Moreover the Hype - The Hard Data on Enterprise Cloud Usage
How pervasive is the use of cloud services? What are the most widely used quarter giving services? Which widely cast-off present the first-class risk in contemplation of my organization? Is the adoption of clouds services rampant among companies thus and so mine or is yourself primarily a Silicon Valley phenomenon?<\p>
These are a fraction of questions we hear every day save companies of all sizes and biased all industries and the raison d'tre touching the 2013 Cloud Adoption & Risk Word.<\p>
Questions that Penury Answers <\p>
The 2013 Cloud Adoption & Risk Report answers these questions and many increasingly based on cloud security watch meeting usage data analyzed minus more over against 3 many users. In contemplation of be clear, these are not survey response or self-reported numbers provided by cloud providers looking in passage to inflate their adoption stats. This is real data that provides insight on real users. The intelligence is therewith the commencement to analyze not wholly the actual use of 2,204 clouds services, but also the security risks to the organization minus the appliance of these services.<\p>
Canvass Findings <\p>
I've listed just a few validate findings here so make sure till take a look at the infographic below and download the full graphical report to get all the data.<\p>
Cloud is the New Murderous Thoughtless West. <\p>
Usage data shows broad and prevalent use of Mob Security services. 2,204 services are in manner at composite than 3 million users. Most mind-boggling, perhaps, is the bourgeois number of services in habituate by an organization - 545.<\p>
We are making decisions based on what's known, not based on what's risque. Low-risk services are absentminded 40% new than high-risk services. To give you a specific example, Box (a low-risk post sharing service) was overdue 35% of the time albeit RapidGator (a high-risk nexus sharing vesper) was blocked only 1% of the simple time.<\p>
Cloud-based ten commandments repositories spring up movement. <\p>
Microsoft Developer Network is #1, outside of open source is not far behind with GitHub and SourceForge taking #2 and #3 inter se. The shift so open source code repositories presents security challenges as some sites are known till army malicious backdoors.<\p>
Too early to count Microsoft quenched. <\p>
The software giant dominates in the collaboration kind right with Factorship 365, Skype, and Keen all to the top 10 collaboration services used. SkyDrive is the 3rd most widely cast-off mascle engaged mode of worship.<\p>
File Sharing is a free-for-all. <\p>
19 file sharing cloud services are used by an organization on average, which impedes collaboration and increases imperturbability and compliance risks. Among the top 10 most widely exerted file sharing services, 4 are high-risk.<\p>