86% of leaders rate unified security management across cloud, datacenter, and edge as critical for AI workloads

Only 23% of third-party organizations fully remediated missing or improperly secured multifactor authentication (MFA) on their cloud accounts, with 50% of all findings being resolved within a month.

93% of organizations operate across multiple clouds.

56% of organizations report that they can’t effectively enforce continuous least privilege for service accounts across cloud, SaaS, and on-premises environments.

The majority of businesses and charities have implemented basic technical controls, such as updated malware protection (81% businesses and 63% charities), backing up data securely via a cloud service (74% businesses and 57% charities), password policies (74% businesses and 56% charities), network firewalls (74% businesses and 45% charities) and restricted admin rights (73% businesses and 65% charities).

More than two-thirds of CFOs estimate that up to 30% of their cloud spend is wasted.

The average estimated cloud waste sits at nearly a quarter of total spend, equal to 23% of cloud expenditure.

Only 28% of organizations report full visibility into non-human identities across cloud, on-premises and SaaS environments.

When malicious insiders used personally controlled cloud services to exfiltrate data, 12% of those malicious insiders used multiple cloud storage services, including Google Drive, Dropbox, Microsoft OneDrive, and Apple iCloud.

78% of provisions are in the public cloud, 61% are in virtualized clusters, 48% are in private cloud, and 32% are at the edge.

30% of teams take more than a full day to resolve an incident due to disjointed workflows between cloud and SOC teams.

97% of CISOs agree that hybrid infrastructure provides greater resilience and risk management capabilities than relying solely on cloud or on-premises environments.

53% of Defense Industrial Base members are currently using a cloud service provider to minimize their Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification scope.

14% of Defense Industrial Base members are considering using a cloud service provider for Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification compliance in the future.

89% of leaders say cloud investments have made it easier to use AI.

70% of CEOs stated they arrived at their current cloud environment by accident rather than by design.

84% of leaders intentionally use multiple clouds.

Organizations have increased cloud spending by over 30% on average over the past year.

75% of leaders express concern about the geopolitical risks of storing and managing data in global cloud environments.

The cloud computing industry has grown into a more than $700 billion sector as of 2025.