Multi-Cloud Strategy May Pose Higher Security Risk: Study

Users of a multi-cloud storage strategy may be twice as likely to face a security breach as those that use hybrid or single clouds, suggests a report UK-based security specialistNominet released this week.

Fifty-two percent of survey respondents who adopted a multi-cloud approach suffered a data breach over the past 12 months, compared to 24 percent of hybrid cloud users, and 24 percent of single-cloud users, the firm found after polling nearly 300 C-Level executives and IT professionals.

Moreover, companies that embraced a multi-cloud approach were more likely to have suffered a larger number of breaches, the survey found. Sixty-nine percent of multi-cloud users suffered between 11 and 30 breaches, compared to 19 percent of single-cloud and 13 percent of hybrid-cloud users.

Such numbers aren't likely to instill confidence in cloud users who already may have had serious reservations about the security of off-site storage. Seventy-one percent of users polled were either moderately, very or extremely concerned about malicious activity in a cloud-based storage solution, the Nominet survey found.

Those in heavily regulated industries expressed concerns about the security provided by cloud vendors. Healthcare providers topped the list at 55 percent; 47 of respondents who had doubts about the cloud were in financial services, and 46 percent were in the pharmaceutical sector.

A factor for some international users is that GDPR has increased potential penalties. Fifty-six percent of respondents cited fines for data leaks as a big concern. Respondents also noted the increasing sophistication of cybercriminals as a concern.

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