Security News > 2020 > February > KPMG on Key Cybersecurity Considerations for 2020
The essential considerations discussed in the latest report are: automating essential tasks; improving the consumer authentication experience; preparing for new cloud threats; improving the business acumen of the security team; aligning business and security; and preparing for more regulation.
"KPMG believes," Steve Barlock, principal at KPMG LLP and lead for cloud and AI, told SecurityWeek, "We are at an inflection point with cloud and cloud take-up. The evidence we're seeing in the market with our customers is that they are generally moving into the cloud at scale, and moving some of their more sensitive applications and workloads into the cloud."
"In cybersecurity in general, this has persisted for many years - but it's even worse where cloud is concerned. We're finding a major skills gap around the cloud native security stacks of each of the major cloud service providers."
As a result, a major factor in preparing for cloud threats is to increase the cloud skill level of the security team, whether that is with additional staff or upskilling existing staff - without diminishing the existing skill levels for on-prem technologies.
Outside of cloud specifics, KPMG sees two further areas that need to be given careful consideration.