Almost half of Indian organisations say they are not likely to secure sensitive data in the cloud, according to the '2018 Global Cloud Data Security' survey by global digital security firm Gemalto. Globally, organisations said only two-fifths of the data stored in the cloud is secured with encryption and key management solutions, it said. It revealed that almost half (49 %) of Indian organisations are not likely to secure sensitive data in the cloud, reflecting limited trust in cloud governance and security practices. More than half respondents said payment information (54 %) and customer data (49 %) are at risk when stored in the cloud. "While it's good to see some countries like Germany taking the issue of cloud security seriously, its a worrying in rest of the world.

Source: dna January 21, 2018 06:33 UTC