Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 24 | Page 68

t cht lk TECH TALK and visibility of, leaving them wide open and vulnerable to possible cyberattacks. While there is large interest and planning to invest further in the cloud, the same research also indicates that 59% of both SMB and enterprise businesses feel that cloud hosted services (along with outsourcing) have the potential to introduce new risks to the IT security of their business. Despite 68 INTELLIGENTCIO these reservations, many are still not taking cloud security seriously or putting the right procedures in place to secure their cloud environments for the purpose of ensuring data is protected. This can leave many businesses caught up in an untamed cloud data jungle – one they have limited control In fact, data protection is one of the biggest concerns for cloud-adopters, with complex threats, opportunist ransomware, data theft, financial fraud and random human error among the ever-growing list. And, while cloud providers are working hard to improve the security and reliability of their cloud platforms, cloud-native security capabilities don’t always suit the demands of corporate systems. Banning or restricting certain applications, monitoring the ongoing behaviour of every application at work, and shielding systems from vulnerability www.intelligentcio.com