Security News > 2020 > March > Exploring the impact that hybrid cloud is having on enterprise security and IT teams

While enterprises rapidly transition to the public cloud, complexity is increasing, but visibility and team sizes are decreasing while security budgets remain flat to pose a significant obstacle to preventing data breaches, according to FireMon's 2020 State of Hybrid Cloud Security Report.

"It is shocking to see the lack of automation being used across the cloud security landscape, especially in light of the escalating risk around misconfigurations as enterprises cut security resources. The new State of Hybrid Cloud Security Report shows that enterprises are most concerned about these challenges, and we know that adaptive and automated security tools would be a welcomed solution for their needs."

Budget reductions increase risk: There was a 20.7 percent increase in the number of enterprises spending less than 25 percent on cloud security from 2019; 78.2 percent spend less than 25 percent on cloud security.

Security teams are understaffed and overworked: While the cyberattack surface and potential for data breaches continues to expand in the cloud, many organisations trimmed the size of their security teams - 69.5 percent had less than 10-person security teams.

24.5 percent of respondents said that not having a "Centralised or global view of information from their security tools" was their biggest challenge to managing multiple network security tools across their hybrid cloud.

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