Worries grow over security of cloud data transfers

Enthusiasm was high at the outset, but now a survey shows that companies are beginning to have second thoughts about relying on cloud-based architectures. Many experts, for example, are increasingly questioning whether cloud computing centers in fact can control production facilities or manage logistics centers without difficulties, as the providers promise.

IT managers are especially wary about an approach where the machines and devices still do not have “intelligence” built into them. Managers also have noted that there are no guarantees of secure data transmissions from the cloud computing centers to the devices and machines. That’s because the applications and the users may be 10,000 km from one another. In the worst case, if the data transfer breaks down, production will shut down in just a few minutes.

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