A third of enterprises suffer unauthorized cloud access

Last month we reported on public sector organizations suffering from cloud leakage. A new report out today shows that this is an issue in the private sector too. The report from cloud governance platform CloudSphere reveals that 32 percent of enterprises have experienced unauthorized access to their cloud resources. Perhaps more worrying is that 19 percent didn't know if unauthorized access had occurred, a problem largely driven by poor enforcement of identity and access management (IAM) policies in the cloud. 'As cloud adoption accelerates, securing and governing multicloud environments is a top IT challenge facing enterprises,' says Keith Neilson, technical… [Continue Reading]