Ponemon Institute-Gemalto 2018 Global Cloud Data Security Study of 244 Australian and 3285 IT practitioners worldwide. 35 per cent of Australian companies said their organisation was proactive in managing data and privacy regulatory compliance half of the 69 percent of German companies that said the same. Australian companies were also less likely to agree that it is challenging to manage privacy and data protections in the cloud, with just 67 per cent agreeing with that statement compared with 83 percent of Indian companies, 87 percent of US companies and 97 percent of French companies.”]