Cloud Providers Deny Responsibilty For Security

A shocking 75 percent of European service providers and 73 percent of their US counterparts said their cloud services did not substantially protect and secure their clients' confidential or sensitive information, according to the recent Security of Cloud Computing Providers report from the Ponemon Institute. Near 62 percent of US providers and 63 percent of European providers were not confident that their cloud applications and resources were secure.

“Neither the company that provides the services nor the company that uses cloud computing seem willing to assume responsibility for security in the cloud," the researchers concluded in the report.

The vendors may not be too far off the mark

The vendors may not be too far off the mark, since cloud computing users in last year's report admitted they were not "vigilant in conducting audits or assessments of cloud computing providers earlier deployment”, the report said.

Cloud providers should not be faulted for giving what clients want, like fast and cheap deployments and business uptime, said Matthew Gardiner, director of security at CA Technologies. But, there are many recent reports showing that clients have higher expectations about security in the cloud, Gardiner noted.