"Organizations Not Confident They Can Protect Sensitive Data in the Public Cloud"
According to a report recently released by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), 67 percent of organizations host sensitive data or workloads in the public cloud. While 89 percent of respondents believe that Cloud Service Provider (CSP) security controls are effective, the CSA discovered that organizations are still not confident about their own ability to protect sensitive data stored in the cloud. Most organizations report that their CSP security controls are either highly effective or somewhat effective. However, nearly one-third were unsure or only slightly confident in their ability to protect sensitive data in the cloud. Another 44 percent expressed only moderate confidence. Hillary Baron, senior technical director for research at the CSA, highlighted that high levels of interest (over 50 percent of respondents) in Privacy Enhancing Computation (PEC) techniques such as homomorphic encryption and confidential computing show how top-of-mind data processing in the public cloud or with multiple parties is for organizations. This article continues to discuss key findings from CSA's Sensitive Data in the Cloud report.