Today, most enterprises are using more than one cloud provider. As cloud adoption accelerates and businesses innovate faster to compete, security leaders must efficiently — and securely — move workloads across more clouds, creating more complexity in their IT environments. In fact, more than 98% of security leaders reported their business is impacted by issues of increasing complexity with 45% noting increased security risk as they navigate both internal demands and external threats from bad actors. But, when it comes to cybersecurity, the biggest threats are often quite simple and much closer to home.
From cost containment issues, to plummeting budgets and skepticism from leadership on the value of cloud initiatives, security leaders are scrambling to address a barrage of competing priorities to satisfy stakeholders as they also look for growth and innovation opportunities. Managing cybersecurity threats can seem overwhelming under the best of circumstances, and today’s threat landscape has never been more complex. Some of the biggest threats to corporate security reside in email and SMS texts in the way of phishing scams and links that propagate destructive viruses when clicked. Even as cyberattacks grow in sophistication, it’s Cybersecurity 101 where security leaders most often slip up and let in bad actors — or fail to recognize insider threats. Security leaders need to get back to basics with company employees and it starts with making security simpler, while leveraging advanced technologies such as artificial intelligence.