"What Happens in the Cloud Stays in the Cloud," Says Comparative Research on Cloud-Web Security

In the publication of new research on 'Web Security in the Cloud', Aberdeen's (News - Alert) analysis shows that users of cloud-based web security had substantially better results than users of on-premise web security implementations in the critical areas of security, compliance, reliability and cost.

 

The research compares approaches companies take to ensure that 'what happens in the cloud, stays in the cloud" i.e., that web-borne threats are eliminated before they touch the enterprise network, reducing risk and avoiding cost.

 

Derek Brink, VP and Research Fellow for IT Security at Aberdeen Group said, 'Aberdeen's data indicates that current implementations of web security solutions are 2 times more likely to be on premise than cloud-based in other words a 60/30 split, with 10% of respondents not yet implementing anything. Given the analysis that shows clear-cut advantages for cloud-based users in terms of security, compliance and cost, however, it seems likely that web security will follow email security as the most pragmatic, widely adopted examples of security software-as-a-service.'

 

The consequences of enterprise end-users being exposed to the malicious elements of the web can have a significant financial impact on the business, for example loss of employee productivity, consumption of network bandwidth, unscheduled downtime, loss or exposure of sensitive data, and additional cost for remediation, audit and compliance. Compared to companies using on premise web security solutions, users of cloud-based web security solutions had 58% fewer malware incidents over the last 12 months, 93% fewer audit deficiencies, 45% less security-related downtime, and 45% fewer incidents of data loss or data exposure.

 

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