http://www.frevvo.com/e-forms-workflow As more and more businesses migrate to the cloud, one question seems to arise - How safe is it?

2. As more and more businesses migrate to the cloud, the question, “How safe is it?” has
become an incredibly important one. Comprehensive research from Crowd Research
indicates that 90% of business owners said that they were moderately concerned to
very concerned about public cloud security.1 How justified are these worries about
security and the cloud?

3. Ever since the cloud
came into being,
people have expressed
concerns about its
security. While many
of the worst fears
about the security of
the cloud haven’t
come to pass, it is still
true that the cloud
presents security
challenges that some
companies struggle to
manage, creating the
potential for
compromised systems
and data breaches.

4. While the cloud will never be completely impervious to security breaches, the security risk
involved is often overstated and storing data on a private server does not guarantee that
data will be safer.2 According to business owners who have migrated to the cloud, only
28% said that their security risk was higher. The rest reported their security had improved,
remained the same, or they did not keep track.

5. Perhaps surprisingly, malware and hacking are not the biggest risks to cloud security.
Instead, the most prevalent cloud security issues are unauthorized access (63%), accounts
being hijacked (61%), and malicious insiders who purposely compromise organizational
security from within (43%). Comparatively, malware and denial of service (DoS) attacks
were considered to be relatively smaller risks (33% and 39%, respectively).

6. As the previous data shows, the biggest threat to cloud security often comes from inside
an organization, rather than without. Lax internal security policies, employee carelessness,
and malicious insiders can all compromise the safety of data irrespective of where it’s
stored – in the cloud or internally.

7. To help organizations keep their
data safe, cloud service providers
can provide them with tools that
help maintain cloud security and
which effectively monitor their
systems to catch potential threats
as soon as possible. Here at
frevvo, we help businesses keep
their data secure with multiple
levels of security features.

8. Some of the ways that frevvo keeps information shared safe on its
cloud-based web forms include:
• Keeping all processing and storage contained to private subnets
with no Internet access.
• Maintaining strict firewalls between all subnets.
• Daily security patches.
• Secure storage access auditing.
• Individual user verification for all sessions and data transfers.

9. To keep the cloud
secure, businesses and
service providers need
to work together. When
service providers give
organizations access to
a robust and effective
set of security tools,
those organizations
become empowered to
protect the security of
their data from within.

10. frevvo’s mobile
electronic web forms
and workflow approvals
allow businesses to
harness the power of
the cloud. frevvo’s
enterprise-ready web
forms are easy to build,
and can be accessed
24/7 on any device.
To learn more, visit
www.frevvo.com today.

11. 1. http://www.crowdresearchpartners.com/portfolio_item/cloud-security/
2. http://www.cio.com/article/2922374/cloud-security/20-of-the-greatest-
myths-of-cloud-security.html

12. Summary
The biggest security threats to the cloud include
unauthorized access, malicious insiders, and
employee accounts being hijacked. To combat these
threats, organizations need a strong internal security
policy, as well as access to security tools from service
providers.