Report by Gigamon
2025 Hybrid Cloud Security Survey
Key Findings
Nearly nine in 10 (89%) Security and IT leaders cite deep observability as fundamental to securing and managing hybrid cloud infrastructure.
88% of Security and IT leaders recognize the importance of deep observability for securing AI deployments.
64% say their number one focus for the next 12 months is achieving real-time threat monitoring delivered through complete visibility into all data in motion.
91% of Security and IT leaders are recalibrating hybrid cloud risk in the AI era.
More than half (55%) of respondents lack confidence in their current cloud security tools’ ability to detect breaches, citing limited visibility as the core issue.
46% of Security and IT leaders say managing AI-generated threats is now their top security priority.
More than half (58%) say they’ve seen a surge in AI-powered ransomware. This is up from 41% in 2024 for AI-powered ransomware sightings.
83% confirm that deep observability is now being discussed at the board level to better protect hybrid cloud environments.
One in three organizations report that network data volumes have more than doubled in the past two years due to AI workloads.
Nearly half of all respondents (47%) are seeing a rise in attacks targeting their organization’s large language model (LLM) deployments.
70% of Security and IT leaders report their organization is actively considering repatriating data from public to private cloud due to security concerns.
54% of Security and IT leaders are reluctant to use AI in public cloud environments, citing fears around intellectual property protection.
Nine out of ten (91%) Security and IT leaders concede to making compromises in securing and managing their hybrid cloud infrastructure.
The breach rate has surged to 55% during the past year. This represents a 17% year-on-year (YoY) rise in breach rates.
46% say that a key challenge in securing and managing hybrid cloud infrastructure is lack of clean, high-quality data to support secure AI workload deployment (46%).
47% say that a challenge in securing and managing hybrid cloud is the lack of comprehensive insight and visibility across their environments, including lateral movement in East-West traffic.
70% of Security and IT leaders now view the public cloud as a greater risk than any other environment.
46% say that a key challenge in securing and managing hybrid cloud infrastructure is lack of clean, high-quality data to support secure AI workload deployment (46%).