Data breaches only happen to other companies — that’s true right up until the minute your company, believing itself secure, gets hacked and finds that the personal data of millions of its customers has been exposed. A company’s reputation and competitive advantage — which may have taken decades to build — can be destroyed overnight. For an emerging technology company, a security breach could interrupt momentum, progress and innovation.

This article discusses how organizations can improve their cloud security efforts and details the challenges associated with heightened scrutiny of security in pubic company transitions.