The studies are coming fast these days. Thales Global Cloud Security Study for 2022 found that during the past 12 months, 45% of businesses have experienced a cloud data breach or failed to perform audits. (It would have been nice for this number to be broken out.) If you’ve been watching this space, it was only 5% off from the previous year. What gives?
Overall, we’re having a perfect storm of a lack of increasing investment in cloud security, a significant dependence on cloud-based platforms, and a shortage of cloud security talent that leads many enterprises to hire less-than-qualified pros. Combine this with increased weaponization of new tools, such as generative AI by bad actors, and most enterprises are ill prepared to handle the new challenges.
