Cloud Apps can Increase the Risk of Insider Threat; here is how.

The cloud computing whatever  its archtiecture (private, public or hybrid), is henceforth indispensable for our mobility, productivity, performance and for our end-to-end competitiveness. But a set of worrying behaviors and chronic negligence can harm and disturb the adoption and the innovation of this emerging technology.  

We have gathered for you numerous reasons to be worried about the use of cloud applications.

It is now clear and obvious that, employees upload proprietary corporate data to a cloud application, such as Dropbox, Box or Google Docs, with the specific intent of sharing it outside of the company. 

A clear disconnect between cloud usage across the business and existing IT controls is alarming.

The access to cloud storage applications after leaving a job is more and more legion. Taking intellectual property after leaving the company becomes a habit.

In fact, cloud applications have made it easy for employees to take information with them when they leave a company.

Therefore we recommend enterprises to measure employee attitudes toward protecting corporate digital assets. Corporate policies have to pay close attention to who is granted access to mission-critical apps. 

Companies should appropriate a better picture of the progress of security controls around sensitive information. 

Employees have to be aware of corporate policies. Taking intellectual property when they definitely leave their companies should be considered as a crime.  

 IT departments should be involved when employees purchase a cloud application for work. 

It’s also critical to provide specific incentives for end users to follow corporate policy such as offering users a seamless login experience in exchange for using a central access control framework.