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110 Reasons Why Your Customers Should Be Skittish About the Cloud

Nearly two-thirds of business managers admitted that they would not pass an audit verifying which users have access to their hosted applications.

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Nearly half of respondents said they are not confident that a compliance audit of their Cloud-based applications would show that all user access is appropriate.

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One in seven companies know for a fact that they have potential access violations in the Cloud, but don’t know how to find them.

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There was nearly a 10 percent jump in the ratio of respondents who admitted they have limited or no knowledge of which applications their employees have access to, compared to a similar survey conducted in 2009.

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An additional 15.7 percent of business leaders say that they are aware that potential access violations exist, but they don’t know how to find them.

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More than three quarters of respondents cannot say who they believe should be responsible for data housed in a Cloud environment.

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61.2 percent of respondents said they have limited or no knowledge of which systems or applications employees have access to.

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This number spiked from 52.8 percent in 2009.

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Fittingly, enterprises are less confident this year than in 2009 that they can prevent terminated employees from accessing one or more IT systems: 64.3 percent said they are not completely confident, compared with 57.9 percent last year.

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56.5 percent of respondents said that external threats were still the biggest concern, compared with 54 percent last year.