Just over half (56 per cent) of firms are transferring data to the cloud without worrying about its security.
According to the 2016 Global Encryption and Key Management Trends Study, over half of firms worldwide are already transferring transfer sensitive or confidential data to the cloud whether or not it is encrypted or made unreadable via some other mechanism such as tokenisation or data masking. Another 28 per cent of respondents expect to do so in the next one to two years.