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New Report Uncovers Cloud Security Concerns and Lack of Security Expertise Slows Cloud AdoptionCrowd Research Partners today released the results of its 2017 Cloud Security Report revealing that security concerns, lack of qualified security staff and outdated security tools remain the top issues keeping cyber security professionals up at night, while data breaches are at an all-time high. Based on a comprehensive online survey of over 1,900 cyber security professionals in the 350,000-member Information Security Community on LinkedIn, the report has been produced in conjunction with leading cloud security vendors AlienVault (News - Alert), Bitglass, CloudPassage, Cloudvisory, Dome9 Security, Eastwind Networks, Evident.io, (ISC)2, Quest, Skyhigh, and Tenable. "While workloads continue to move rapidly into the cloud, security concerns remain very high," said Holger Schulze, founder of the 350,000-member Information Security Community on LinkedIn (News - Alert). "With a third of organizations predicting cloud security budgets to increase, today's cloud environments require more than ever security-trained, certified professionals and innovative security tools to address the concerns of unauthorized access, data and privacy loss, and compliance in the cloud." Key takeaways from the report include:
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