Over Half Of Chief Information Officers Fail To Test Cloud Vendors' Security Systems And Procedures

LONDON, 5 December, 2012 – Cybersecurity tops CIO's concerns, with 84% of CIOs stating that they are either concerned or very concerned about the risks associated with IT security breaches. Yet while security issues remain the biggest concern that CIOs have about migrating their technology functions to the cloud, less than half (45%) test cloud vendors' security systems and procedures.

The news follows a report by the Cloud Industry Forum (CIF), which found that the rate of adoption by UK organisations is accelerating. Its study of 250 IT directors in private and public sector organisations found that 61% of companies are using a cloud-based service, compared with just 48% in 2011.

Other measures adopted by CIOs to tackle the cybersecurity risk include improving physical security (44%), developing business continuity processes (39%), identifying management systems (34%) and relying on an external audit provider (13%). Surprisingly, more than one-in-10 (11%) of CIOs said that they not taking any proactive action to address cybersecurity, while 12% said that they were 'not concerned' about cybersecurity.