Pandemic has accelerated cloud transformation for nearly half of organizations
Centrify, provider of Identity-Centric Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions, released new research that found nearly half of IT decision makers' companies had to accelerate their cloud migration plans (48%) and IT modernization overall (49%) during the COVID-19 pandemic. As they evolve to meet current and future requirements, the top two modernization priorities for the next 12 months are maintaining flexibility/security for remote work (38%) and digitizing more processes using cloud native services (36%).
To fully understand the impact of this collective unprecedented experience, Centrify partnered with CensusWide to explore the state of enterprise IT landscapes six months into the global pandemic. For example, 43% revealed they had no plans to fully migrate to the cloud before March 2020. Beyond expedited digital transformation, the shift to distributed workforces led 60% of companies to review and adjust their cybersecurity postures and supporting tools.