Ixia,
a Keysight Business and leading provider of network testing,
visibility, and security solutions, today announced research findings
highlighting concerns of IT professionals worldwide in a new Cloud
Security survey.
The
survey, commissioned by Ixia and conducted by Dimensional Research,
polled over 350 IT professionals in companies larger than 1,000
employees with primary responsibility for cloud deployments and
management. Based on the survey results, over 90 percent of respondents
are concerned about data and application security in public clouds while
nearly 60 percent of respondents reported that public cloud
environments make it more difficult to obtain visibility into data
traffic.
"As
cloud adoption grows, concerns are shifting from migration topics to
security and data visibility topics in the cloud environment," said Jeff
Harris, chief marketing officer, Ixia. "Companies realize it is vital
to have access to comprehensive cloud visibility solutions. This survey
highlights how much enterprises are concerned about data visibility in
every public and private cloud they operate."
Key Findings of the survey include:
- 88 percent experienced a business-related issue from a lack of visibility into public cloud data traffic.
- The top three challenges companies experience due to lack of visibility into their public cloud data include:
- troubleshooting application performance issues,
- troubleshooting network performance issues and application outages, and
- rapid response resolving security alerts and network outages.
- The top three priorities for organizations with public cloud environments include:
- securing data and applications,
- satisfying compliance requirements, and
- increasing cloud expertise.
- 87
percent suffered downtime of an hour or more during their last network
outage, which according to Gartner, can cost a company as much as $5,600
for each minute1, as well as impact customer satisfaction.
- 99 percent confirm that scalability is key for cloud monitoring solutions.
Download the full Cloud survey findings here: https://www.ixiacom.com/resources/lack-visibility-drives-public-cloud-security-risk.