Just under 45% of organizations conduct regular audits and assessments to ensure their cloud environment is secured, which is “concerning” as more applications and workloads are moved to multi-cloud platforms.
Asked how they were monitoring risk across their cloud infrastructure, 47.7% of businesses pointed to automated security tools while 46.5% relied on native security offerings from their providers. Another 44.7% said they conducted regular audits and assessments, according to a report from security vendor Bitdefender.
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Some 42.1% worked with third-party experts, revealed the study, which surveyed more than 1,200 IT and security professionals including chief information security officers across six markets: Singapore, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, and the US.
It is “definitely concerning” that only 45% of companies regularly run audits of their cloud environments, said Paul Hadjy, Bitdefender’s vice president of Asia-Pacific and cyber security services, in response to questions from ZDNET.
Hadjy noted that an over-reliance on cloud providers’ ability to protect hosted services or data persists even as businesses continue moving applications and workloads to multi-cloud environments.
Source: Information Technologies - zdnet.com
