Are federal CIOs and CISOs hesitant about moving to the cloud?
DG: One of the interesting things from the survey was that 72 percent of our respondents are not using cloud computing. What that tells me is that, while everybody’s talking about it and talking about how great it’s going to be, it means that only 28 percent of our customers are really diving into it. Chances are, that’s primarily due to security concerns, whether it’s data loss or an inability to enforce policy. If you think about it, whether it’s a private cloud or a public cloud, either way you have to be able to extend your policy into that cloud in order to protect the information that resides there. So, probably what we’ll see, say, over the next two years, is that ability to extend policy into the cloud, and be able to enforce it, and that will reduce the risk and allow our customers to move there. Right now, they’re looking at it and not jumping in. LM: I think they’re very concerned about the level of risk that’s involved, the potential loss of control over data, and from what
