Thinking about using apps in the cloud to reduce your costs? You might want to think again. According to cloud experts Netskope, only one in ten cloud apps are secure enough for enterprise use. According to the study, organizations are employing an average of over 600 business cloud apps, despite the majority of software posing a high risk of a potential data leak. The company showed that 15% of logins for business apps used by organizations had been breached by hackers. Over 20% of businesses in the Netskope cloud actively used more than 1,000 cloud apps, and over 8% of files in corporate-sanctioned cloud storage apps were in violation of DLP (Data Loss Prevention) policies, source code, and other policies surrounding confidential and sensitive data. Google Drive, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter and Gmail were among the apps investigated in the Netskope research.
That should be a wake up call to businesses to tighten their use of cloud based apps. It truly isn’t that hard and it can help a company avoid a lawsuit, embarrassment, or some other really bad event down the road.
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Only 1 In 10 Cloud Apps Are Secure For Enterprise Use: Netskope
Thinking about using apps in the cloud to reduce your costs? You might want to think again. According to cloud experts Netskope, only one in ten cloud apps are secure enough for enterprise use. According to the study, organizations are employing an average of over 600 business cloud apps, despite the majority of software posing a high risk of a potential data leak. The company showed that 15% of logins for business apps used by organizations had been breached by hackers. Over 20% of businesses in the Netskope cloud actively used more than 1,000 cloud apps, and over 8% of files in corporate-sanctioned cloud storage apps were in violation of DLP (Data Loss Prevention) policies, source code, and other policies surrounding confidential and sensitive data. Google Drive, Facebook, Youtube, Twitter and Gmail were among the apps investigated in the Netskope research.
That should be a wake up call to businesses to tighten their use of cloud based apps. It truly isn’t that hard and it can help a company avoid a lawsuit, embarrassment, or some other really bad event down the road.
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