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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
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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
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