Key Findings
Nearly two-thirds (64%) of respondents ranked cloud security among their top five security priorities.
17% of respondents identified cloud security as their number one priority.
55% of respondents report cloud environments are more complex to secure than on-premises infrastructure. This represents a 4-percentage-point increase from last year.
57% of organisations use five or more encryption key managers.
Enterprises now use an average of 85 SaaS applications, contributing to security tool sprawl.
Four of the top five most targeted assets in reported attacks are cloud-based.
Over half (52%) of respondents are prioritising AI security investments over other security needs.
68% of respondents reported a rise in access-based attacks.
61% of organisations use five or more tools for data discovery, monitoring, or classification.
85% of organisations say at least 40% of their cloud data is sensitive.
Over half of cloud data is now classified as sensitive.
Only 66% of organisations have implemented multifactor authentication (MFA)
The average number of public cloud providers per organisation has risen to 2.1.