Who's Minding Your Cloud?

Who's minding your cloud? Who's Good question? But the answer is foggy. Practices have improved, but troubling indicators persist. CA Technologies commissioned Ponemon Institute to survey 748 IT and IT security practitioners for the 2013 Security of Cloud Computing Users study to see how cloud security has progressed over two years. + THE RESULTS: While security is improving, lingering doubts remain. O If concerns about cloud security are slowing adoption... 46% 45% 9% Stopped or slowed adoption of cloud services due to Cloud adoption hasn't slowed Not sure security concerns Then why aren't IT leaders foCused on minding their cloud? login 79% 31% 29% 8% ***** Confident their End users are responsible for securing cloud computing providers End users are responsible for securing SaaS apps organization can authenticate users IT security responsible for SaaS apps So who are they relying on? O Saas is nearly everywhere and gaining in importance 79% 55% 72% say SaaS is important in meeting those demands two years from now say their organization say SaaS is important in meeting IT and data processing needs today Uses SaaS But security is an open question Call us wild and crazy, but shouldn't 53% 35% 36% 31% 100% of IT say Saas applications are IT leaders are said the cloud said their security leaders be confident their computing provider is organization's end users are Saas applications not evaluated for security prior to deployment responsible for security responsible for SaaS security are secure minding their SaaS security? IaaS is spreading fast IaaS is important in meeting IT and data processing needs today IT leaders said IaaS is important in meeting those demands two years they use IaaS (up from 35% in 2010) 51% from now 45% 33% But as with SaaS, many IT leaders are alarmingly "hands off" when it comes to security 49% 22% 23% 21% IaaS security is IT's responsibility IaaS security is the end user's responsibility Organization IaaS security is the responsibility of the cloud computing evaluates IaaS resources for security prior to deployment provider So where is IT in all of this? And where does your organization stand? Who's minding your cloud? agility made possible" Ponemon ca INSTITUTE Get all the research and see how your organization stacks up on the state of cloud security at ca.com/who technologies