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With several years of cloud adoption in organizations, approaches to security
have been evolving rapidly. To dig deeper into these concerns and the
controls being used to mitigate both sanctioned and unsanctioned cloud
security risks, the Cloud Security Alliance and Bitglass conducted a survey of
176 IT security leaders. Respondents revealed that visibility and control
remain major issues for many organizations. In fact, more than half do not
have adequate visibility and have experienced a security incident due to lack
of appropriate controls. Based o_x001F_ of our responses approximately 93 percent
of individuals are still concerned about shadow IT compared to this time last
year. On the topic of whether cloud vendors should be forced to cooperate
with government requests for data, just over half opposed to cooperation.