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95% of organisations are moderately to extremely concerned about public cloud security: Report

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In addition to the added complexity of managing hybrid IT architectures, organisations underwent forced acceleration to the cloud due to external factors such as competitive pressures or supply chain issues. The lack of time to properly plan and coordinate around these efforts has led to security gaps across an expanded attack surface.

Fortinet partnered with Cybersecurity Insiders to survey more than 800 cybersecurity professionals from around the world and across industries. The 2022 Cloud Security Report reveals how security executives and practitioners are using the cloud, how their organisations are responding to security threats in the cloud, and the challenges they are facing. Here are the highlights from this year’s report.

Digital innovation accelerates cloud adoption

Organisations continue to shift workloads to the cloud at a rapid pace to achieve faster time to market, increased responsiveness to customer needs, and cost reductions. 39% of respondents have more than half of their workloads in the cloud.

Most organisations are selecting either a hybrid-cloud (39%, up from 36% last year) or multi-cloud deployment approach (33%) to integrate multiple services, provide scalability, or ensure business continuity. 76% of organisations currently use two or more cloud providers. Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft Azure currently top the list, though Google and Oracle are rapidly increasing their investment and market share.

Cloud adoption faces headwinds

This year’s Cloud Security Report is set against a backdrop of increasingly brazen and costly ransomware attacks and the major disclosure of a severe zero-day vulnerability in the popular Apache Log4j logging tool, used in many enterprise apps and cloud platforms. It’s not surprising that 95% of organisations are moderately to extremely concerned about cloud security.

When Cybersecurity Insiders asked what surprises security professionals uncovered that hinder cloud adoption, they discovered lack of visibility, high cost, lack of control, and lack of security are the biggest unforeseen factors that slow or stop cloud adoption. These remain to be consistently top inhibitors of cloud when comparing against previous surveys. Addressing these topics is critical to empowering business success.

The survey also reveals that the biggest challenges organisations face are not primarily about technology, but people and processes. Lack of qualified staff (40%, up from 37% last year) is the biggest obstacle to faster adoption, followed by legal and regulatory compliance, and data security issues. Internal upskilling as well as external expertise are major game-changers to accelerating cloud success.

And with most organisations choosing a hybrid or multi-cloud strategy, not surprisingly, they face increased complexity and security challenges. Lack of security skills becomes the top challenge (61%, up from 57% last year), followed by data protection, understanding how different solutions fit together, and loss of visibility and control. Simplifying this complexity is key.

Breaking down the barriers to cloud adoption

To reduce complexity and increase security effectiveness, visionary organisations are taking advantage of a cybersecurity mesh platform. This composable, collaborative approach helps dramatically reduce the financial impact of security incidents. With threat intelligence directly shared across diverse attack vectors, visibility, management, and automation are simpler, meaning that threats are identified, and mitigated, faster. Ultimately, this reduces complexities, resolves cloud cybersecurity skills and resource gaps, and increases overall security effectiveness.

It’s no surprise that over three-quarters (78%) of respondents consider it very or extremely helpful to have a single cloud security platform to protect data consistently and comprehensively across their cloud footprint.

Vishak Raman, Vice President of Sales, India, SAARC and Southeast Asia, Fortinet said, “Cloud is a critical element of the digital strategy of almost every organisation, of every size, and across all industries. Securing this transition is critical. Fortinet helps deliver cloud-native security solutions that empower a secure digital acceleration with cloud. Available on all major cloud platforms and for all cloud environments, the Fortinet Security Fabric extends world-class security across on-premises, hybrid, and cloud platforms. Our solutions provide IT teams with the advantage of reduced operational complexity, greater visibility and robust security effectiveness.”

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