Survey finds that 58% of respondents are concerned about security in the cloud, while misconfigurations are one of the leading causes of breaches and outages, as public cloud adoption doubles over past two years
The Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and AlgoSec announced the results of a new study titled, “State of Cloud Security Concerns, Challenges, and Incidents.” The survey, which queried nearly 1,900 IT and security professionals from a variety of organization sizes and locations, sought to gain deeper insight into the complex cloud environment that continues to emerge and that has only grown more complex since the onset of the pandemic.
The survey found that over half of organizations are running 41% or more of their workloads in public clouds, compared to just one-quarter in 2019. In 2021, 63% of respondents expect to be running 41% or more of their workloads in public cloud, indicating that adoption of public cloud will only continue. Sixty-two percent of respondents use more than one cloud provider, and the diversity of production workloads (e.g., container platforms, virtual machines) is also expected to increase.