Cloud computing as the focus of future security investment for global enterprises

The 14th annual Global Information Security Survey, published 29th, shows that many companies have realised that the application of emerging technologies has led to an increase in the risk of information security, with 72% per cent of respondents thinking that the level of information security risk has increased as a result of external threats, and cloud computing has become the primary security investment priority in the

The company surveyed more than 1700 companies around the world, about 8% of them Chinese. The survey found that 72% of respondents thought that the level of information security risk increased as a result of external threats. But only one-third per cent of respondents believed that the information http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/34129.html "> Security Policy" for their companies had been updated over the past 12 months. 61% per cent of respondents said they are currently using, evaluating or planning to use cloud-based services over the next 12 months. Encouragingly, 59% of the respondents plan to increase their information security budget over the next 12 months. At the same time, 51% of companies say they have developed information security policies. The respondents said cloud computing was the primary investment focus for information security in the next 12 months. About 90% of the respondents agreed that the cloud service providers have external certification, and 45% of the respondents said the certification should be based on common standards.

Although the application of cloud computing is extremely attractive, many companies still do not know the meaning of cloud computing, they need to strengthen the impact of cloud computing and the perception of risk. 48% of respondents said cloud computing was a very serious challenge, and slightly more than half of the respondents had not implemented any control measures to reduce the risk associated with cloud computing. The most common measure is to step up regulation of the contract management process with cloud service providers, but this measure is only used by 20% of companies, suggesting that the level of trust based on cloud computing is high, but there may be some blindness.

(Responsible editor: Liu Fen)