A recent global cloud security survey conducted by Trend Micro has explained well- why most enterprises in India face apprehension over adopting cloud computing? With the highest percentage among all surveyed countries, 55 percent of enterprise IT decision makers in India reported a security lapse or issue with their cloud provider within the last 12 months.
The global survey of 1200 U.S., UK, Germany, India, Canada and Japan IT decision makers uncovers the insecurities and concerns surrounding their journey to the cloud. It confirmed that, on the whole, enterprises are moving toward the cloud at a brisk pace and are initiating a giant multiplicative wave of new deployments. For four technologies/services (server virtualization, VDI, public and private cloud services), market penetration numbers are significantly higher in India, U.S. and U.K. In fact, although about 10 percent of the respondents (in India?) currently have private cloud in production and roughly 15 percent have hybrid apps or public cloud in production, about half are implementing or piloting one or more of these cloud services, according to the survey.
"Based on our data, we see about 5 times more cloud applications coming online in the next few years, yet 44 percent of the survey respondents in India reported having experienced a IT security breach. On top of that, some respondents didn't even know they were using the cloud, much less securing it. Given that many cloud service providers do not adequately add IT resources to security, the reality is that securing your cloud environment is not an option, it's a necessity," said Amit Nath, Country Manager, Trend Micro, India.
