A report has warned against weekend downtime for cloud in Europe, as more than 10% of cloud activity takes place outside the Monday to Friday working week.
European enterprises are currently adopting cloud-based services at a rapid rate, with companies signing up for more than one service every single day.
Average European enterprises are presently using 897 cloud services a year, which is 61% more than what was recorded in Q2 2014.
Nearly 14% of the activities are tracked during weekends with recorded usage of 6.8% during Saturdays and 7.8% on Sundays, which shows that cloud usage in Europe never stops.
Skyhigh Networks‘ ‘The Cloud Adoption and Risk Report for Q2 2015’, also highlighted that nearly 71% of organisations are exposed to compromised credentials, with 8.5% of the compromised credentials available for purchase on the dark net.
Around 64.9% of cloud services are unsafe, with only 15.4% of cloud services supporting multi-factor authentication. Only 9.4% have encrypted data and 2.8% supports ISO 27001.
Cloud has enabled flexible working which has a huge impact on the enterprise, and the amount of work conducted out of office is putting added pressure on IT departments as cloud-related security risks go beyond traditional office hours.
Skyhigh Networks European spokesperson Nigel Hawthorn said: "Companies are adding a new cloud service to their network each day and it won’t be long until the average organisation is using well over 1,000 distinct services.
"While cloud services offer clear agility gains for the enterprise, the situation is by no means perfect. Too few cloud services are suited to enterprise use.
"The vast majority fall at the first hurdle: failure to adopt the right IT security features or adhere to the EU Data Protection regulations."
