Cloud Security 2021: Latest Trends and Insights

With cloud security continuing to be a hot topic in 2021, Fortinet and Cybersecurity Insiders decided to ask cybersecurity professionals around the world and across all industries for their latest insight. The brand new 2021 Cloud Security Report reveals how more than 500 cybersecurity professionals -from technical executives to managers and IT security practitioners - are responding to security threats in the cloud, how their organizations are using cloud, and the best practices they are prioritizing. Let's take a look at some of the key findings.

A Diverse Digital Landscape and the Role of Cloud Security

First, and perhaps not surprisingly, organizations continue to rapidly adopt cloud to meet key business objectives. And that trend doesn't seem to be slowing down any time soon. The report indicates that 33% of organizations are running more than half of their workloads in the cloud today, and that number is set to rise to 56% in the next 12-18 months.

And multi-cloud, whether as a chosen strategy or simply where organizations end up, is very much the norm. A whopping 76% of organizations are using two or more cloud providers. That doesn't mean that on-premises has gone away - hybrid still accounts for more than one-third of deployments. What it does mean is that organizations are now operating in an expanded and diverse digital landscape.