Security issues surrounding cyber commerce and communication must surely be among the most unsettling in an age in which the world has never been more dependent on instant interconnectivity.
Hacking allegations surrounding the US election continue to cause unease; critical infrastructure is in danger of becoming a target; denial of service attacks are becoming increasingly common; and even the defences of high profile names such as Yahoo, LinkedIn and Tesco have been breached.
It would be reasonable, in such a climate, to expect that the impact on the cloud-based systems which host day-to-day interactions would be dramatic.
However despite incidents which have attracted headlines in 2016 (a year in which more than two billion records were stolen) there still appears to be a strong element of trust in the integrity of the cloud.
Why should this be the case? Well, over a career which has focused on migrating businesses large and small to the cloud, I have found that accessibility, flexibility, mobility, reliability and costs trump concerns about security in the vast majority of cases.
I suspect the underlying reason is that users are now comfortable with the…
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