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SecurityFirst and Ponemon Study Find Security Gap in Cloud MigrationRANCHO SANTA MARGARITA, Calif., Feb. 6, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- SecurityFirst™, provider of data-centric security, and the Ponemon Institute today released the results of a new study finding that 65 percent of infosecurity professionals would like to store object data in the cloud, but nearly half (47 percent) either don't believe or are not sure if data in the cloud is as secure as in their own data center. The study looks at perceptions around on-premise and cloud-based data storage technologies across 483 Information Technology (IT) and IT security professionals familiar with the benefits of object storage technology. The primary reasons respondents identified for moving data into a cloud-based object storage environment are to reduce storage costs, to avoid new datacenter investments and to achieve better resiliency or disaster recovery. Only 12 percent of respondents said increasing security would be their primary reason. "There is a prominent security gap delaying the mass migration of data to the cloud," said Jim Varner, president and CEO of SecurityFirst. "We see an overwhelming desire among organizations to move to the cloud and leverage the cost/value of object storage. However, they often take an outsourced approach to cloud security instead of a unified, comprehensive approach, including integration with their existing security infrastructure and careful control of security keys. Object data has the same security and privacy requirements as any other data and a structured, controlled approach needs to be taken seriously." Other key findings from the report include:
In addition to overall findings, the Ponemon Market Study of data storage technologies looked at results by industry including Financial Services, Health Care and Pharma, Services, Public Sector, Industrial and Retail. Out of the various industries surveyed, the Financial Services sector findings were the most notable:
These findings suggest a more aggressive adoption of new technology, specifically object storage in a cloud environment, in the financial services sector. For the full study, visit the SecurityFirst website. Visit SecurityFirst at IBM THINK Conference 2019, Booth #116 from February 12-15 for further discussion around these findings. About SecurityFirst Press Contact Samantha Harris
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