Security concerns are the biggest barrier to cloud adoption

Cloud take up is showing no signs of slowing down, with 97 percent of IT leaders in a new survey saying that their strategy includes the expansion of cloud deployments, however, 63 percent say that cyberthreats are the main obstacle to their cloud plans. The study, from cloud security company Confluera, looks at how IT leaders detect, evaluate, and act against cybersecurity threats in today's cloud environment. It finds that IT teams spend 54 percent of their time investigating security alerts, with over half of those alerts turning out to be false or benign alarms. When asked about the challenges… [Continue Reading]