Organizations face an uphill battle to keep their sensitive data secure

2023-04-14 03:30

On average, organizations store 61% of their sensitive data in the cloud, and most have experienced at least one cybersecurity breach, threat and/or theft of data, with 75% experiencing all three, according to Skyhigh Security.

"Today, data is everywhere, traversing devices, cloud applications, the web and infrastructure, so it comes as no surprise that one of the biggest challenges organizations face is securing their vital data," said Rodman Ramezanian, global cloud threat lead, Skyhigh Security.

Organizations lack trust in the public cloud to keep their sensitive data secure.

Overall, 37% of organizations lack trust in the public cloud to keep their sensitive data secure.

There has been a 25% increase in the number of organizations that say shadow IT is undermining their ability to keep data secure - up from 50% in 2019 to 75% in 2022.

When shadow IT is discovered, 23% of organizations leverage data loss prevention and encryption to keep data in cloud services secure.

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