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Most Businesses Haven't Inspected Cloud Services For Malware (betanews.com)
Ian Barker, reporting for BetaNews: Echoing the findings we reported earlier that companies leave cloud protection to third-parties, a new study from cloud security company Netskope reveals most companies don't scan their cloud services for malware either. The study conducted with the Ponemon Institute shows 48 percent of companies surveyed don't inspect the cloud for malware and 12 percent are unsure if they do or not. Of those that do inspect 57 percent of respondents say they found malware. It also shows that while 49 percent of business applications are now stored in the cloud, fewer than half of them (45 percent) are known, officially sanctioned or approved by IT.
Best not to ask these kinds of questions. In God and Cloud we trust.
Cloud is a cute word for "outsourcing your shit to someone else's data center" (disaster recovery an optional add on, which no one buys)
This is how we get there... CIO read something in a magazine while sitting on a Delta Airlines flight in first class, and said: Dude... we gotta have this cloud shit. Look at the size of this fucking Amazon AWS advertisement. It's a whole page. IN COLOR. That's probably pretty expensive. These guys clearly know what they are talking about. My IT guys can't even make a Powerpoint slide that looks half this good.