Cloud applications and services today are integral parts of IT systems, as more enterprises accept them as a simply another part of their infrastructure. Whether it's a simple Salesforce usage model or a more complicated big data analytics deployment, the cloud has taught IT managers and administrators to trust it over the course of several years. But it has been a long road for cloud adoption. Trust wasn't there; in 2006, at the start of the cloud services era, security concerns were the No. 1 barrier for enterprises examining the cloud for such deployments. Today, security remains the top worry when it comes to signing on to a cloud service, albeit to a much lesser extent. HexaTier, a security and compliance software provider for cloud-hosted databases formerly known as GreenSQL, conducted a survey recently with about 600 IT leaders to identify the top security concerns still preventing enterprise organizations from moving their sensitive information to databases in the cloud. reveals the top 10 results of its "Database as a Service (DBaaS) Security Research 2015" report.
- eWeek