Do economic factors really trump everything we do?

I wrote a blog last week while attending the IASA conference and I quoted someone who claimed that when it comes to security concerns in the cloud—and he was speaking only of the cloud—the economics of storing your data in a public cloud trumps security concerns.

I understand where he was coming from. How much security is too much? Or, just enough? The answer is impossible to discern unless an incident occurs. When your systems or your data are attacked, I doubt that anyone would argue they have too much invested in security.

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