Data at rest, or data at risk?
Róisín Kiberd looks at the recent developments in, and the latest threats to, cloud security
Cloud has gradually, dramatically taken over computing — experts predict that, by 2020, the market for cloud will be worth $411 billion. Aside from boosting mobile work and collaboration, and ensuring that files are never more than a click away, the hope is that the current wave of cloud computing will lay the foundations for further change, including the rise of IoT, machine learning and AI-as-a-service in the near future.
But the cloud ...