Thursday, November 8, 2012

End-users admit ignorance of corporate cloud policies

Already tested by the BYOD movement, security-conscious IT admins are increasingly forced to cope with employees exposing their organization to security risks and unforeseen expenses by signing on to unauthorized cloud services.

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This includes storing customer records on Dropbox, enlisting Amazon Web Services to test beta code, or creating and sharing sensitive documents via Google Docs.

A new study from Symantec titled "The Myth of Keeping Critical Business Information Out of Clouds" points to the chasm between users and IT admins over access to cloud applications.

Read the article to see the survey results.

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