Security News > 2023 > July > Thales: For Data Breaches, Cloud Assets are Biggest Cybersecurity Headache

Thales cloud security study shows that 79% of organizations have more than one cloud provider and 75% of companies said they store at least 40% of their sensitive data in the cloud.

While Thales, in its 2023 Cloud Security Study, found that well over a third of businesses experienced a data breach in their cloud environment last year versus 34% in 2021, organizations are increasingly caching sensitive data in multiple cloud environments.

The report polled respondents two ways about sensitive data in the cloud to determine how they are deploying their data and saw increases in both directions.

83% expressed concerns over data sovereignty, with 55% of respondents asserting that data privacy and compliance in the cloud has become more difficult.

Over half of respondents to the survey said human error triggered cloud data breaches at their organizations, but only 41% of organizations have implemented zero-trust controls in their cloud infrastructure - only 38% use zero-trust protocols in their cloud networks.

"To overcome challenges arising from human error and misconfiguration, it is imperative that data protections in the cloud are simplified and easily manageable." He said that the key to enhancing cloud security lies in treating cloud environments as an extension of existing infrastructure.

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