Cloud Computing Providers: Clueless about Security?

A survey of 127 of cloud computing providers suggests many regard security as being mainly their customer's problem, and indeed, see their own proficiencies in low cost and speed of deployment services.

Those are among the findings from Ponemon Institute's "Security of Cloud Computing Providers Study," which quizzed 103 cloud service providers in the U.S. and 24 in Europe on their views and practices in securing the data entrusted to them by customers. In the survey 65% of the respondents were "public" cloud providers, the remainder "private" cloud or "hybrid" mix. The most frequently offered service was software-as-a service, followed by infrastructure-as-a-service and platform-as-a-service.

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Cloud Computing Providers: Clueless about Security?