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Slick Cyber Systems a managed services provided for I.T. Servicing customers worldwide, we are often asked about cloud sharing and the implications of using them. So we review some concerns shared by many IT security professionals.

Public Cloud Concerns

In a recent poll, about half of IT professionals polled think public cloud sharing services. Are one of the biggest security risks companies face today. IT leaders said popular cloud sharing services like Dropbox, Google Docs, are just are NOT suitable for business uses. This conclusion was from a study by a global software company Axway and the Ponemon Institute, an independent research firm.

Many of these polled IT professionals expressed concerns. Because of the inability to know if confidential data was lost or stolen. These concerns are due to data breaches in a “public cloud“. Of the roughly 80 percent that voiced concerns, they feel the bigger concern is the possible loss of intellectual property.

Are your employees using file-sharing?

The research shows that 66 percent of businesses rank file-sharing as a high or very high risk. Another concern is that many businesses don’t even know if their employees are using public cloud services. Nearly 70 percent of those surveyed said they are not likely to know whether employees are using unapproved and risky file-sharing tools.

“The results of this study definitively illustrate that organizations are highly concerned about the security risks posed by both public cloud and on-premise file-sharing tools, and they’re absolutely right to be wary of them,” said Larry Ponemon, chairman, and founder of the Ponemon Institute. “We’re acutely aware of the potentially catastrophic consequences that can occur as a result of security breaches of these tools.”

The study was based on surveys of 621 IT and IT security practitioners. With involvement in setting IT security priorities, managing IT security budgets, selecting vendors and contractors, and evaluating program performance.

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