Cloud Adoption in Canada Brings Light to Security Concerns

📅 November 4, 2016 - Canada's cloud adoption is really taking off, but the recent growth has left more than three quarters of Canadian organizations feeling as though they're not handling cloud security properly. That research came to light in recent research released on Thursday by IT consultant company Scalar Decisions.

The report, titled Moving up the value chain: What we can learn from experienced cloud users, found that Canadian companies listed security concerns as their top concern after adopting cloud technology.

The study looked at 355 Canadian IT executives and top-level managers. Two fifths of the participants were from on-premise only organizations. A majority of Canadian organizations have not adopted accountability and data classification (54%), identity and access management (48%), client and end-point protection (57%), and application-level security controls (59%). The study ran from August to September.

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