Intelligent Data Centres Issue 06 | Page 15

LATEST INTELLIGENCE PRESENTED BY CLOUD ADOPTION AND RISK REPORT 2019 E Executive Summary Cloud services bring a momentous opportunity to accelerate business through their ability to quickly scale, allow us to be agile with our resources, and provide new opportunities for collaboration. As we all take advantage of the cloud, there’s one thing we can’t forget – our data. When using software-as-a-service (SaaS) we are responsible for the security of our data, and need to ensure it is accessed appropriately. When using infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) or platform-as-a-service (PaaS), we are additionally responsible for the security of our workloads, www.intelligentdatacentres.com and need to ensure the underlying application and infrastructure components are not misconfigured. Through analysis of billions of anonymized cloud events across a broad set of enterprise organizations, we can determine the current state of how the cloud is truly being used, and where our risk lies. Consider that nearly a quarter of data in the cloud is sensitive, and that sharing of sensitive data in the cloud has increased 53% year-over-year. If we don’t appropriately control access and protect our data from threats, we put our enterprises at risk. ◊ Issue 06 15