A recent survey of 384 business managers from large enterprises revealed that confusion abounds about cloud data security. More than three-quarters of the respondents couldn't say who they believe should be responsible for data housed in a cloud environment, while 65.4% said that the company from which the data originates, the application provider and the cloud service provider are all responsible, and another 13% said they were not sure.
There was no consensus on who the single party should be that protects that data.

Courion conducted the global survey in October querying 384 business managers from large enterprises -- 86% of which had at least 1,000 employees. Among the other findings:

* 1 in 7 companies admit that they know there are potential access violations in their cloud applications, but they don't know how to find them.