Security News > 2023 > June > US and European IT decision-makers have different cloud security priorities

The growing adoption of cloud has elevated cloud security fear for IT teams, as they grapple with the challenges and concerns arising from the widespread use of complex cloud environments while diligently addressing them, according to SUSE. Cloud security fear is growing.

Data stores as top cloud security concern: 31% of respondents named data stores hosted by cloud or third parties as their top cloud security concern.

Strong secondary concerns: Runtime attacks from threat actors, security policy management, federation, and automation follow closely behind data stores as secondary concerns US vs. European cloud security priorities: US IT decision makers are significantly more likely than those in Europe to believe that security policy management, federation and automation are among their biggest cloud security concerns.

In terms of current cloud security practices, both security automation and container firewall are widely adopted, each accounting for 38% of the overall usage.

This is followed by security policies and management tools provided by cloud vendors at 36% and security policy automation at 34%. Several cloud security practices exhibit significantly higher popularity among IT decision-makers based in the US compared to their counterparts in Europe.

When comparing respondents based in the US and Europe, it is evident that US respondents will place a higher priority on source-code auditability and SBOM depth/quality/security to ensure businesses meet supply chain security goals.

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