The cloud security market has been growing at a steadfast pace as of recent. Gartner Inc. foresees that the market will grow to $3.1 billion in 2015, nearly up 1 billion from the previous year. Furthermore, the market research firm Infonetics, confirms the strong projected trajectory. Specifically, Infonetics predicts that the cloud-based security service revenue will skyrocket. Recent estimations project the market size to triple by 2017.

Nowadays, new leaks, breaches, and hacks are ever present in media. New enterprises, companies, organizations in financial, healthcare, and technology sectors are facing such security and privacy problems regularly. Furthermore, at times employees within an organization can make foolish mistakes - or intentionally transfer highly confidential and sensitive data to unsecure, unencrypted locations within the cloud.

Cloud computing is a revolutionary milestone in technology and business alike in the enterprise and consumer sector. Cloud computing also enables consumers all over the world with easy access and free gigabytes - capabilities that were expensive and hard to access before. Despite the seemingly ever-present dependence on the cloud, many consumers and enterprises remain in the dark about cloud security, and the many risks and threats to the utility-filled cloud.