* Annual survey shines a spotlight on global misconceptions around the extent of hybrid cloud blind spots, despite 93 percent predicting cloud security attacks are on the rise
According to Flexera, 74 percent of organizations now exist in the hybrid cloud and this infrastructure is considered the 'norm' by Forrester analysts. Yet it comes with a number of security concerns, clearly recognized by respondents to the Gigamon Hybrid Cloud Security survey; 93 percent predict cloud security attacks are only going to increase, and 90 percent had experienced a breach in the last 18 months. The issue is that 31 percent of breaches are being identified later down the line, rather than preemptively using security and observability tools - either by data appearing on the dark web, files becoming inaccessible, or users experiencing slow application performance (likely due to DoS or inflight exfiltration). This number rises to 48 percent in the US, and 52 percent in
The good news is that collaboration across IT is on the rise. 96 percent of IT and Security leaders around the world believe cloud security is everyone's responsibility, and almost all (99 percent) see CloudOps and SecOps working towards a common goal. Yet there is still more to be done, while CloudOps seems to be leading on strategy, 99 percent of respondents claim a lack of a security-first culture means vulnerability detection is often siloed to the SecOps team.
Unexpected Issues Keeping CISOs up at Night
The Gigamon report also identified that the key stressors for IT and security leaders in 2023 aren't what many may have anticipated. It is unexpected blind spots (56 percent), legislation (34 percent) and attack complexity (32 percent) that keep CISOs and other IT leaders up at night, while a lack of cyber investment is only worrying 14 percent of global respondents, along with just 20 percent who wereconcerned about the ongoing skills gap. In fact, only 19 percent claim effective security education for staff is a crucial factor for gaining confidence on IT infrastructure security. Respondents from
Survey respondents generally acknowledged blind spots across their hybrid cloud infrastructure:
* 70 percent lack visibility into encrypted data, a number that rises to 79 percent in
* 35 percent had limited insights into containers, which increases to 38 percent in
* Just under half (48 percent) had insights into laterally moving data, although the US leads the market here with 64 percent achieving
Yet despite flagging blind spots as their leading stressor, one third of CISOs and 50 percent of other IT and Security leaders admit they lack confidence in knowing where their most sensitive data is stored and how it is secured.
"These findings highlight a trend of critical gaps in visibility from on-premises to cloud, the danger of which is seemingly misunderstood by IT and Security leaders around the world," comments
Deep Observability Facilitates the Zero Trust Journey
The Gigamon report on Hybrid Cloud Security trends points to
Yet while half of all respondents to this year's survey stated that
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