Security concerns remain a critical barrier to cloud adoption, showing little signs of improvement in the perception of cloud security professionals.
Cloud adoption is further inhibited by a number of related challenges that prevent the faster and broader embracement of cloud services, including the continued lack of cloud security talent, proliferating compliance requirements, and the significant lack of visibility and control, especially in hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Cloud security continues to be a significant issue, with 95% of surveyed organizations concerned about their security posture in public cloud environments.
Misconfiguration remains the biggest cloud security risk, according to 59% of cybersecurity professionals.
Despite economic headwinds, cloud security budgets are increasing for the majority of organizations by an average of 33%. 44% of organizations are looking for ways to achieve better visibility and control in securing hybrid and multi-cloud networks, with 90% looking for a single cloud security platform to protect data consistently and comprehensively across their cloud footprint.
We hope you'll find this report informative and helpful as you continue your efforts to secure your organization's cloud journey against evolving threats.
WORKLOADS IN THE CLOUD. Despite a leveling out of cloud adoption year-over-year, the pace of moving workloads to the cloud remains strong.
MULTI-CLOUD ADOPTION. As workloads move to the cloud, organizations are selecting the cloud platform that's the best fit for each project.
Future cloud adoption is highest for Google Cloud Platform and Oracle Cloud.
CLOUD SERVICES PRIORITIES. It seems the cloud is not just about compute and storage.
Interestingly, security services are the top workload deployed in the cloud, just ahead of compute, storage, and even applications.
Cloud users affirm that the cloud is delivering key business benefits, including flexibility and scale, agility, business continuity, and accelerated deployment and provisioning.
PUBLIC CLOUD SECURITY CONCERNS. Despite increasing cloud adoption, cloud security concerns show no signs of improving.
Virtually all surveyed organizations are moderately to extremely concerned about their security posture in public cloud environments.
The number of organizations that are extremely concerned about public cloud security even increased this year - 35%, up from 32%. RISK OF A BREACH. Concerns about public cloud security, combined with a lack of resources and expertise, are driving the perception that the risk of a security breach in the public cloud is higher than in traditional on- premises environments.
Only 27% of security professionals perceive risk to be lower in a public cloud environment.
OPERATIONAL SECURITY HEADACHES. Cybersecurity professionals face numerous challenges when it comes to protecting cloud workloads.
CLOUD BUDGET. Despite macroeconomic headwinds and a slowdown in workloads moving to the cloud compared to years past, most organizations will see a boost in their cloud security budget this year.
CLOUD SECURITY PRIORITIES. Security professionals are using their cloud budgets wisely to address the threats and concerns that pose the biggest risk to the business.
METHODOLOGY & DEMOGRAPHICS. The 2023 Cloud Security Report is based on a comprehensive global survey of 752 cybersecurity professionals conducted in February 2023, to uncover how cloud user organizations are adopting the cloud, how they see cloud security evolving, and what best practices IT cybersecurity leaders are prioritizing in their move to the cloud.
This Cyber News was published on www.cybersecurity-insiders.com. Publication date: Sun, 10 Dec 2023 15:43:05 +0000