Security News > 2021 > April > 58% of IT and security pros concerned about security in the cloud

The Cloud Security Alliance and AlgoSec published research which queried nearly 1,900 IT and security professionals from a variety of organization sizes and locations, sought to gain deeper insight into the complex cloud environment that continues to emerge and that has only grown more complex since the onset of the pandemic.

Respondents' leading concerns over cloud adoption were network security, a lack of cloud expertise, migrating workloads to the cloud, and insufficient staff to manage cloud environments.

Eleven percent of respondents reported a cloud security incident in the past year with the three most common causes being cloud provider issues, security misconfigurations, and attacks such as denial of service exploits.

"The use of cloud services has continued to increase over the past decade. Particularly now, in the wake of the COVID-19 public health crisis. With organizations struggling to address a largely remote workforce, many enterprises' digital transformations have been accelerated to enable employees to work from home," said Hillary Baron, lead author and research analyst, Cloud Security Alliance.

"As an ever-more complex cloud environment continues to evolve, the need for supplementary infosecurity tools to improve public cloud security will, as well."

"In the face of complex environments, a dearth of security staff, and an overall lack of cloud knowledge, organizations are turning to security tools that can help supplement their workforce."

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