Cloud adoption up across all industries, survey shows.

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While cloud adoption has significantly increased across all industries, a recent report from data security firm Bitglass revealed that regulated industries are increasingly adopting the cloud. In those industries, adoption jumped from 15% in 2014 to 39% in 2015, with adoption in unregulated industries increasing from 26% in 2014 to 50% last year.

Even heavily regulated industries are increasingly moving to the cloud, the survey shows. Security has always been a concern for these industries; however, the report states that cloud access security brokers (CASB) are filling that gap and enabling widespread adoption of cloud apps across all industries. CASBs offer data-centric security solutions, enabling firms in heavily regulated industries to remain compliant while using public cloud apps, easing the shift away from onsite apps, according to Legaltech News.

"Regulated industries have stricter policies in handling sensitive content like personal health information (PHI) and personally identifiable information (PII). Encryption plays a big role in keeping sensitive content from falling into the wrong hands. Traditional cloud solutions do not offer a way to manage and control encryption keys that on-premise solutions offer," Kunal Rupani, principal product manager at Accellion, told Legaltech News.

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