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Recently, Spanning – an EMC company and provider of backup and recovery for SaaS applications –announced the results of a survey* of over 1,000 IT professionals across the U.S. and the U.K. about trends in SaaS data protection. It turns out that IT pros across the pond have the same concerns as here in the U.S., as the survey found that security is the top concern when moving critical applications to cloud. Specifically, 44 percent of U.S. and U.K. IT pros cited external hacking/data breaches as their top concerns, ahead of insider attacks and user error.
But that’s not the most interesting finding, as the survey found that perceived concerns differ from reality when it comes to actual data loss. In total, nearly 80 percent of respondents have experienced data loss in their organizations’ SaaS deployments. Accidental deletion of information was the leading cause of data loss from SaaS applications (43 percent in U.S., 41 percent in U.K.), ahead of data loss caused by malicious insiders and hackers.