New 2014 Perspecsys Cloud Trust Survey

More Than Half of European IT Security Professionals Don't Fully Trust US Clouds says New Perspecsys Survey Data is based on a sSurvey of more than 100 IT Security Pros at InfoSec Europe 2014 percent of respondents believe that this 62% response is justified based on reports of the NSA having visibility into this data 51% of respondents do not trust U.S.-based clouds, 36% do and 13% are not sure 62% believe that there has not been an overreaction to U.S.-based clouds based on reports of the NSA having visibility into this data. 38% believe there has been an overreaction. 47% 62% of respondents believe their data is more secure contained in Europe- an-based clouds, 35% said they don't believe that and 18% were unsure of respondents believe that using a European-based cloud is easier from a regulatory/compliance perspective, 27% don't and 11% were unsure Virtually all of the respondents found impending data residency/privacy laws will have some impact on their organization's cloud strategy 37% 24% 18% of respondents said that more than half of its organization's cloud strategy is being impacted by existing or impending data residency/privacy laws. of respondents said that between 25-50% of its organization's cloud strategy is being impacted by existing or impending data resi- dency/privacy laws. of respondents said that less than 25% of its organization's cloud strategy is being impacted by existing or impending data resi- dency/privacy laws. 59% 41% do not believe that European-based governments agencies conduct practices to the same extent as the NSA. 22% believe they do and 19% were unsure. said they would store data between U.S.-based and European-based clouds evenly if data residency/privacy laws did not exist, 12% said they would store in U.S.-based clouds, 34% in European-based clouds (and 13% would never use cloud apps.) Perspecsys.com Perspecsys perspecsys.com/cloud-trust Making the Public Cloud Private