Security News > 2023 > October > Factors leading to organizations losing control over IT and security environments

Companies are challenged with the growing need to connect everything in their business while maintaining control over their security, productivity, and competitive growth, according to Cloudflare.

This has introduced new risks and challenges and led nearly 40% of organizations to agree or strongly agree that they are losing control over their IT and security environments.

Specifically, organizations ranked the top four factors that are contributing to the overall loss of control as an increase in the overall number of applications, an increase in locations for applications, the shift from on premise to cloud, and the shift to remote/hybrid workforces.

52% of IT and security teams were not responsible for ensuring security for all in-office, remote or hybrid workers five years ago, but are today.

What's more, greater than 40% are also now responsible for managing and securing applications in public cloud environments or managing and securing data in SaaS environments, despite not owning these areas five years ago.

98% of organizations agree that today's businesses would gain value from a connectivity cloud that provides secure, performant, "Any-to-any" connectivity more now than ever before.

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https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2023/10/04/it-security-teams-responsibilities/