Bitglass, the Next-Gen CASB company, has just released Guardians of the Cloud,
its 2019 Cloud Security Report. As organizations migrate more of their
data and operations to the cloud, they must maintain a robust
cybersecurity posture. To uncover how well they are accomplishing this,
Bitglass partnered with a leading cybersecurity community and surveyed
IT professionals about cloud security in their organizations.
Each
year, Bitglass conducts research on the state of enterprise cloud
security in order to identify key trends and common vulnerabilities.
This year's report found that 75 percent of organizations leverage
multiple cloud solutions, but only 20 percent have visibility over
cross-app anomalous behavior. With more and more organizations storing
sensitive information in the cloud - information like customer data (45
percent), employee data (42 percent) and intellectual property (24
percent) - adopting proper cloud security measures is critical.
Key findings:
- Despite
a change in their order, the top priorities from 2018 remained top
priorities in 2019; this year, the top three were defending against
malware, reaching regulatory compliance and securing major apps in use.
- The use of CASBs for malware protection has increased from 20 percent in 2018 to 31 percent in 2019.
- Access
control (52 percent) and anti-malware (46 percent) are the most-used
cloud security capabilities. However, these and others - like single
sign-on (26 percent) and data loss prevention (20 percent) - are still
not deployed often enough.
- Malware
has emerged as the most concerning data leakage vector, with 27 percent
of respondents citing it as the number one concern for their
organization. Conversely, concern about leakage through unsanctioned
cloud apps fell from 12 percent in 2018 to 5 percent in 2019, showing
that organizations are becoming aware that there are threats greater
than shadow IT.
- Cost
is the leading concern for organizations evaluating cloud security
providers. Other critical concerns include ease of deployment (46
percent), whether the solution is cloud native (45 percent), the ease
with which cross-cloud security policies can be enforced (36 percent)
and the solution's ability to integrate with various cloud platforms (36
percent).
"Data
is now being stored in more cloud apps and accessed by more devices
than ever before," said Rich Campagna, chief marketing officer of
Bitglass. "This report found that 93 percent of respondents are at least
moderately concerned about their ability to use the cloud securely, and
that the adoption rates of basic cloud security tools and practices are
still far too low. Many organizations need to rethink their approach to
protecting data, as traditional tools for safeguarding data on premises
are not capable of protecting data in the cloud."
To learn more about how cloud security has shifted over the past year, download the full report here: https://pages.bitglass.com/CD-FY19Q2-Guardians-of-the-cloud-report_LP.html