Security and Accountability in the Cloud Data Center: A SANS Survey

The relentless march of end user organizations toward cloud services continued during the past 12 months, according to a new SANS survey, despite long-standing fears about information security, the lack of visibility into cloud provider security controls and the shortcomings of controls available to those who utilize cloud services. One big difference since the 2015 SANS cloud security survey:1 Information security professionals appear to have accepted that the cloud is here to stay and are, sometimes unenthusiastically, doing what they can to make the frontier secure.