Cloud Security Challenges Catch Executives Off Guard

It is no secret that cloud computing is efficient and scalable, however, they do come with a price tag. Many top executives are concerned about specific security threats faced by cloud environments, and these are also the ones they are least prepared to deal with, as these are the risk areas that top executives are most concerned about. 

A new report by PwC, released today, indicates that cloud threats are the highest security concern for the majority of business leaders surveyed (42 per cent) said they feel threatened by cloud threats.

In response to the PwC survey, a total of 4,020 respondents were surveyed. Of those surveyed, 38 per cent cited hacking and leak operations, 35 per cent named third-party breaches, 33 per cent cited attacks on connected products, and 27 per cent cited ransomware. 

There is an extensive array of policies, technologies, applications, and controls that are part of cloud computing security and are designed to safeguard applications, services, and the underlying cloud infrastructure when using cloud computing. 

In the cloud, a system’s security is only as strong as its weakest link, which means that to ensure data and applications are protected from all angles, multiple technologies need to work together to offer an effective system of protection.

In such instances, firewalls, identity management, network segmentation, and encryption are all common solution

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