Security testing: why are cloud customers loath to be proactive?

When IT recruitment consultancy Robert Half Technology surveyed 250 senior IT decision makers at the end of 2012, it revealed one of those all-too-often unspoken truths: most CIOs choose a cloud vendor without bothering to put their security systems to the test. This despite, according to the very same survey of the very same people, 84 percent of those asked insisting they were either 'concerned' or 'very concerned' about the risk of a security breach. The fact that 55 percent of the CIOs questioned simply haven't actually tested the security procedures supposedly put in place by their cloud vendor should be something of a wake up call.