New research from WinMagic has revealed that security, management and compliance challenges are affecting the benefits businesses get from using the cloud within their infrastructures.

The firm polled 1029 IT decision makers in the UK, Germany and US and discovered that whilst 98% of respondents use the cloud, 33% admitted that data residing there is only partially encrypted. What’s more, 39% said they do not have unbroken audit trails across virtual machines in the cloud, something that can leave them exposed to risks. Unsurprising then that 58% said security was their top concern on future workloads in the cloud, whilst protecting sensitive data from unauthorized access (55%) came in second.

WinMagic’s research also revealed confusion as to compliance of data stored in the cloud. A worryingly low 39% felt they were ultimately responsible for this, with 20% believing responsibility rests solely with the cloud service provider and the same percentage thinking they were covered by their cloud service provider’s SLA. This confusion is particularly concerning given the fact that GDPR will come into force in little over five months.

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