Security News > 2021 > January > 2021 Cybersecurity Trends: Bigger Budgets, Endpoint Emphasis and Cloud
Endpoint security issues equal some of the most challenging today and tomorrow.
Budget allocations to cloud security will grow from single-digit to double as companies look to protect 2020 cloud buildouts in the year ahead. A Gartner analysis of 2021 cloud priorities names "Distributed cloud" as a future focus for businesses which will have significant security implications.
Distributed cloud is the migration of business processes to the public and private cloud - or hybrid cloud.
According to Muralidharan Palanisamy, chief solutions officer at AppViewX, that shift will drive Cloud Security Posture Management in 2021.
5G security took a backseat in 2021 even as those networks continued to roll out; but 2021 will see it return to the conversation - because 5G adoption won't be seamless.
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