Anna Forrester
Mike Goodfellow, an advisory partner for Deloitte‘s operations in Canada, clarified misconceptions about the limits and safety of cloud computing at this week’s Deloitte 360 conference, Business in Vancouver reported Tuesday.
“We have to protect ourselves, but that doesn’t necessarily mean we exclude options,” Goodfellow told his audience during a panel discussion at the conference.
Tyler Orton writes that Goodfellow believes companies turning to cloud will continue to increase in the coming years as they seek to build a business edge.
Other Deloitte executives noted that having computing systems hosted in the cloud does not present a greater security risk than having the systems in-house, Orton reports.
However, they also believe recent cyber attacks on large companies pose the same threat to small and medium-size enterprises, the report said.
Tejinder Basi, Deloitte’s head of enterprise risk in Vancouver, added that the threat profile is also changing to indicate professional and organized hackers and could include competitors as well as employees.
