As organisations continue to adopt the cloud, with 35% running more than 50% of their workloads on the likes of Azure, AWS and GCP, they struggle to manage the complexity of securing their cloud infrastructures across multiple cloud platforms, while also suffering a cyberskills and knowledge shortage.
While perceived cost savings and ease of use were the original drivers for using cloud vendor security, there is an increasing realisation that the complexity of managing three or four different security platforms argues in favour of an independent cloud security solution to streamline security across all cloud platforms. In fact, 54% of those surveyed thought that an independent security vendor would be better suited to their needs than the cloud platform provider.
There is also an increasing need to deploy application protection in the cloud with this capability going up by 11% in the last year to become the 3rd highest area of focus, quoted by 53% of the survey sample. According to the report, 57% of respondents say that they expect to run more than half their workloads in the cloud within the next 12 to 18 months and, of those, some 76% were using two or more cloud providers.