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Insufficient protection of sensitive data is the biggest threat to cloud computing in healthcare. Howard Young, director of solutions architecture at Zadara Storage, stressed the need for routine security checks, such as penetration testing, to ensure consistent and intact environment configurations. Young also highlighted the importance of physical and logical safeguards, as well as the complexity that comes with evolving cloud technology. He advised healthcare CIOs and CISOs to consider a hybrid cloud approach for better control and insight into data protection.