A recent survey of 150 CIOs and CTOs in Asia Pacific revealed that security was the most prevalent concern among the respondents when migrating their technology functions to the cloud.

In fact 44% of those surveyed in Hong Kong were concerned most about security. Other concerns included data integrity (26%), lack of internal knowledge on (18%) and migration cost (8%).

In the same survey, when asked what their companies were going to do about cyber security, 30% of CIOs and CTOs in Hong Kong said that they were looking at identifying cloud computing management systems, 26% were developing business continuity processes and 24% were aiming to improve the security systems on their own computer systems.

While cloud computing is deemed to improve business processes and increase company competitiveness, security in the cloud continues to remain a global challenge, particularly as more and more critical functions are migrated. So what can be done? Here are some tips on dealing with security issues in a cloud-enabled organization.