One possible explanation for the lack of cloud security is a misunderstanding about the built-in security offered by cloud providers. “One of the things that gets glossed over in education is that — when you go to the cloud and you’re in that shared responsibility model — you are still responsible for your data. You may not physically have the server onsite, but it’s still your data, and you’re ultimately responsible,” said Andy Lombardo, technology director at Maryville City Schools in Tennessee, in a recent ManagedMethods webinar.
To that end, 60 percent of respondents in the ManagedMethods survey said they had a great deal or quite a lot of confidence that the data stored in their cloud environments was private and secure. “They do provide some security, but it is extremely basic,” says Anthony Glowacki, senior inside solution architect covering cybersecurity at CDW•G. “Since users are the strongest and weakest link, we have to provide a lot of security around users.”
LEARN MORE: Read more from Anthony Glowacki on security tools for K–12 cloud environments.
