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Office 365 Users Need Better Care of Sensitive Data: Report

May 19, 2016

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s transformation of the company from a staid desktop sales company into a dynamic cloud subscription company has been remarkable. By the number of enterprise users, Microsoft has become the most widely used cloud service provider in just two years. Perhaps unsurprisingly, because of its ease and ubiquity, OneDrive is the most used part of the Office 365 suite.

Such figures come from a Skyhigh Networks analysis of more than 600 enterprise users of Office 365 products. The statistics are impressive – but one feature that should concern all security officers is that there is no reduction in users’ risky behavior. In particular, users are continuing to store sensitive data unencrypted in the Microsoft cloud.

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