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How do organizations make sure that cyber security and backup/recovery processes keep up with the evolution to multi-cloud? In addition, how do they ensure that the data which is being stored, accessed, and transferred between multiple clouds and on-premises data center locations meets increasingly stringent data protection and regulatory requirements? 63% believed the emergence of cloud native applications, Kubernetes containers and SaaS workloads posed a risk to data protection, primarily because they lacked adequate tools to manage data protection in so many different environments.

Canonical released data from a survey revealing the goals, benefits, and challenges of cloud-native technologies. The report has surveyed more than 1,300 IT professionals over the last year about their usage of Kubernetes, bare metal, VMs, containers, and serverless applications.

IBM has expanded its extensive cybersecurity portfolio by acquiring Randori - a four-year-old startup that specializes in helping enterprises manage their attack surface by identifying and prioritizing their external-facing on-premises and cloud assets. Its plan is to give the computing behemoth's customers a tool to manage their security posture by looking at their infrastructure from a threat actor's point-of-view - a position IBM hopes will allow users to identify unseen weaknesses.

In recent years, there had been more cyberattacks, ransomware events, and an ongoing discovery of potential vulnerabilities within an IT infrastructure. The workforce needed to adapt to working from remote locations, hence why we need to shift to a multicloud solution to have flexibility, agility, and effectiveness to meet mission and business outcomes.

In this video for Help Net Security, Jane Wong, VP of Security Products at Splunk, talks about challenges organizations are facing to secure their multicloud environments. The pandemic and the consequent increase in remote work lead organizations to accellerate their digital transformation and the migration of their data and applications to cloud environments.

According to a recent Pew Research survey, 64 percent of Americans are choosing to remain in either a fully remote or hybrid working environment, forcing businesses to grapple with the increasing complexity that comes with migrating and scaling workloads in the cloud. Qa survey respondents rank visibility into cloud data-in-motion as the top security factor globally.

Healthcare industry still lagging in multicloud adoption. Despite multicloud becoming the dominant IT architecture worldwide, nearly one-in-three respondents in the industry say private cloud is still their model of choice.

28% of companies are using four or more public/private clouds today, but that is expected to more than double in two years to 65%. "As cloud service providers improve their security and data protection offerings, decision-makers increasingly realize they can't protect their firms' data on-premises as well as they can in the cloud. But migrating existing IAM tools and processes to multicloud IaaS, PaaS, and private clouds creates problems that firms must solve" according to the Forrester study. "According to the Forrester study, firms can't just lift-and-shift existing IAM tools from on-premises to the cloud," said Eric Olden, CEO of Strata Identity.

In recent years, Microsoft's security offerings have shifted from security for Microsoft products and services to security from Microsoft for the full range of products and services an enterprise needs to protect. Last year Microsoft Defender for Cloud added features for managing and monitoring security settings on AWS as well as on Azure; now it covers GCP as well, with a dashboard showing your security settings and whether you're following best practices across all three clouds.

CloudBolt Software released its latest research report, examining industry sentiment in specific dimensions of hybrid cloud/multi-cloud, and aiming to uncover unmet cloud needs that hinder cloud innovation. These limitations are caused by too many groups across an enterprise using too many different tools and clouds, with 80% struggling to achieve comprehensive visibility into cloud usage and spend.