Are Your Files Safe?

ARE YOUR FILES SAFE? THE CLOUD CLIMATE A survey by AllM found that 25% of its members Only 16% had an official, cloud-hosted file One in four admit employees use "unofficial" cloud file sharing." know that employees are using consumer file sharing services such as Dropbox. sharing system for employees to use. In the past 12 months, 63% of employees have used personal email to send sensitive work documents.? CONFIDENTIAL 74% of those employees believe that their companies approve of this type of file-sharing behaviour. CONFIDENCE IN CLOUD SECURITY Level Of Confidence In The Security Of Information Shared Via The Cloud. 19% - Not confident at all.. 35% - Not very confident. 8% - Extremely confident. I 26% - Somewhat confident. 12% -Very confident. THE MAIN CONCERN 71% of respondents identifying preventing data loss as main concern." Followed by preventing outages (64%).4 And keeping seCurity up-to-date, (58%).4 THE RISKS 40% experienced the exposure of confidential information.5 40% reported that they had lost data in the cloud and had to restore it from backups. One out of five users surveyed said they use the consumer file-sync-and-share system with work documents. Half of those users do this even though they know it's against the rules. Average cost of a data breach equalled 5 Milion in 2011. PREVENTION Understand and manage the risk? DENIAL COMPROMISE COMPLETE CONTROL Action: Implement a standard sync and share tool for all users. Action: Let users use the Action: Implement an consumer tools they are most comfortable with and enterprise grade tool. Result: Drive your company's productivity and offer security, control and integration with other software. rely on their competence and good will. Result: Consistent approach but will lack enforced data Result: Limited Business security. functionality and suffer significant security risks. The Risks: 46% of The risks: 70% of data breaches caused by mistake or malicious intent. organisations experienced security challenges after implementation. The Risks: Risk significantly reduced. 34% of your competitors will have already implemented these tools. ARE YOUR FILES SAFE? http://hs.maytech.net/are-your-files-safe maytech GLOBAL DATA TRANSFER Sources: 'www.information-age.com, 'wwwglobalscape.com, 'wwwgoogle.com/finance, "betanews.com/2014/04/03/are-hosted-cloud-storage-providers- heading-down-a-slippery-security-slopel, 4 /blog.soonr.com/data-security-what-to-look-for-in-a-secure-fle-sharing-service-part-17, Fowncloud.com/ Infosecisland.com, 'd3liczouvobl1.dloudfront.net