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From The Expert Corner

August 07, 2012

Data Protection in the Cloud - Are We Fooling Ourselves?

By TMCnet Special Guest
Richard Moulds, Vice President of Strategy, Thales e-Security

How many organizations currently transfer sensitive data to the cloud? Who should be responsible for looking after that data? Are organizations capable of protecting their data once it has been transferred to the cloud? And how do organizations apply encryption to protect data in the cloud?

These are just some of the questions that our brand new study – Encryption in the Cloud – answers. The study is based on a global survey carried out by the Ponemon Institute (News - Alert) of over 4,000 business and IT managers. The findings are fascinating and provide a comprehensive picture of how organizations around the world approach the topic of protecting their sensitive data assets in the cloud environment.

We all know that in general, the cloud has already become central to the IT strategy of many organizations around the world, but I expected to hear that organizations took a much more cautious approach when it comes to their more security sensitive business processes and data... Read More

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