NETWORKS & APPLICATIONS
THE STATE OF
WRITTEN BY : VIKKI DAVIES
Lack of knowledge and expertise continue to plague security teams . Cyber Magazine looks at and latest report on the state of cloud security
The worldwide public cloud services market grew 24.1 % year-on-year in 2020 . With companies relying heavily on public clouds as the driver for digital transformation , the security of their cloud applications , data , and underlying infrastructure remains a top priority for Chief Information Security Officers ( CISOs ).
Cloud misconfigurations , however , are consistently a top concern for organisations utilising the public cloud . Such errors lead to data breaches , allow the deletion or modification of resources , cause service interruptions , and otherwise wreak havoc on business operations . In a recent survey carried out by the Cloud Security Alliance ( CSA ) and commissioned by cyber security company VMWare one of the key findings was that lack of knowledge and expertise continue to plague security teams . CSA surveyed 1,090 IT and security professionals globally in its ‘ State of Cloud Security Risk , Compliance , and Misconfigurations ’ report . The lack of knowledge and expertise was repeatedly identified as the primary barrier to general cloud security ( 59 %) the primary cause of misconfigurations ( 62 %) a barrier to proactively preventing or fixing misconfigurations ( 59 %), the primary barrier to implementing auto remediation ( 56 %).
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