Report by ARMO

The State of Cloud Runtime Security

13 FINDINGSPublished Jun 4, 2025
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Key Findings

Security teams receive an average of 4,080 alerts per month from multiple cloud security tools.

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CloudToolsAlertsAlert fatigue

It takes an average of 7.7 days, up to 30 days, to correlate alerts across cloud tools and organizational silos.

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CloudToolsAlertsAlert fatigue

63% of organizations deploy more than five cloud runtime security tools.

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CloudTools

46% of respondents grapple with cloud security tool alert fatigue.

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CloudToolsAlertsAlert fatigue

Security teams must sift through roughly 7,000 cloud security tool alerts to find a single active threat.

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CloudToolsAlertsAlert fatigue

45% of respondents report consistent false positives from their cloud security tools.

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CloudToolsAlertsAlert fatigueFalse positives

92% of respondents believe that unified cloud runtime security solutions would enhance incident response efficiency and contextualise alerts.

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CloudToolsAlertsIncident response

Organizations experience only 7 true cloud security events per year.

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CloudTools

89% of respondents report that their current processes fail to detect active cloud threats.

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CloudTools

A striking 38% of SecOps professionals identify the Cloud Security team as their most difficult collaboration partner during incidents.

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Cloud

The Platform team is identified as the most difficult collaboration partner by 31% of SecOps professionals.

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Cloud

Establishing separate cloud security teams is a practice adopted by 63% of companies.

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CloudStaffTalent

Only 13% of organizations successfully correlate alerts between cloud security tools.

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CloudToolsAlertsAlert fatigue