While IT leaders in all industries value their data, public sector data can be among the most important to protect. This makes transitioning agency IT systems to the cloud an especially sensitive and challenging endeavor.
Analyst firm IDC reports that the market for worldwide cloud enterprise applications grew by 19.7 percent in 2015 and reached a total size of $34.5 billion. Yet as the threat landscape continues to evolve, data vulnerability is increasing. In addition to the financial implications, security breaches hold the potential of damaging an agency’s reputation and operations. With such high stakes, organizations must maintain an unrelenting focus on data security going forward.
