State of cloud adoption and security in India

Around the world IT leaders are at a very fast pace coming up with innovations and working together which revolves around cloud computing. At a world where data and storing has been a major issue and hackers are challenging them every day, the Chief Information Officers (CIO) are integrating data and analytics in the cloud and securing them safely. Now-a-days social platforms are being key elements and used for organizational benefits, these are often based in Platform-as-a-service (PaaS) and API technologies. Companies are leveraging various cloud platforms including public and private, sometime a mix of both, SaaS, PaaS, IaaS. These advantage and benefits welcomes more and more concerns related to security.

In India most of the Small and Medium Business (SMBs) have a huge potential to implement and adopt cloud security but due to negligence and lack of awareness about the potential problems that could occur most of them has not yet adopted it yet. For example, most enterprises have adopted BYOD initiatives in the workplace but what they do not realize is that if a mobile device with cloud access is compromised, the cloud itself can be compromised. Another important factor is that a lot of jobs can be generated in this cloud arena and immense innovation can take place producing millions of dollars as revenue.

Businesses are hesitant about the cloud mainly because of data security issues like security policies and control and access at provider sites, financial viability, compliance requirements, lack of recruiting appropriate staff etc.