{"id":41089,"date":"2020-07-10T10:36:52","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T10:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/?guid=3f5c6dd1070f8be50c83798889a6069f"},"modified":"2020-07-10T10:36:52","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T10:36:52","slug":"majority-of-uk-firms-say-cyber-threats-are-outpacing-cloud-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/majority-of-uk-firms-say-cyber-threats-are-outpacing-cloud-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Majority of UK firms say cyber threats are outpacing cloud security"},"content":{"rendered":"


\n Sabina Weston<\/a><\/span>
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10 Jul, 2020<\/span><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u200b<\/span>New research into cloud security<\/a> management has found that 83% of UK organisations believe threats to cloud systems are outpacing their ability to effectively deploy countermeasures.<\/p>\n

This places the UK behind the global average, at 71%. By contrast, only 53% of German enterprises believe the same.<\/p>\n

Cyber security company Palo Alto Networks has published its findings about the practices, tools, and technologies that companies around the world use to manage security for cloud-native architecture, interviewing 3,000 professionals in cloud<\/a> architecture, information security, DevOps, and application development located across the UK, Germany, USA, Singapore, and Australia.<\/p>\n

The State of Cloud Native Security<\/em> report shows that UK organisations today host 42% of their workloads in the cloud and expect this to increase to 65% in the next two years.<\/p>\n

A significant majority (93%) of UK businesses admitted to using more than one cloud platform, while one in two (57%) said they use between two and five. The trend was reflected on a global scale, with 94% and 60% of global organisations admitting to the same respectively.<\/p>\n

However, the report has found that the growing reliance on cloud infrastructure has not translated into\u00a0increased confidence in cloud security.\u00a0In fact, 84% of UK respondents admitted that their organisation struggles to draw a clear line between their own responsibility for cloud security and their cloud service providers responsibility for security.<\/p>\n

Low confidence in cloud security, and undefined responsibility for it, coincides with a surge in the number of\u00a0attacks on cloud accounts,\u00a0up\u00a0by 630% between January and April of this year, according to\u00a0McAfee<\/a>. A majority of these external attacks were large-scale attempts to access cloud accounts with stolen credentials and usually targeted collaboration services like Microsoft 365.<\/p>\n

The research also found that, while overall enterprise use of cloud services increased by 50%, access to the cloud using unmanaged, personal devices doubled, contributing to the risk of company data being stolen. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sabina Weston<\/p>\n

10 Jul, 2020 <\/p>\n

\u200bNew research into cloud security management has found that 83% of UK organisations believe threats to cloud systems are outpacing their ability to effectively deploy countermeasures.
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