70% of Security and IT leaders now view the public cloud as a greater risk than any other environment.

Nine out of ten (91%) Security and IT leaders concede to making compromises in securing and managing their hybrid cloud infrastructure.

38% of assets hosted by Google Cloud were vulnerable to at least one security issue or misconfiguration. This rate for Google Cloud was over 2.5x more than assets hosted by AWS.

Critical vulnerabilities (CVSS 9.0 or higher) were detected on assets hosted by all cloud providers, though uncommon.

15% of assets hosted by AWS were vulnerable to at least one security issue or misconfiguration.

46% say that a key challenge in securing and managing hybrid cloud infrastructure is lack of clean, high-quality data to support secure AI workload deployment (46%).

In cloud environments, in 70% of observed incidents, attackers gained access through logins from unfamiliar geographies.

44% of threat detections originate from the cloud.

Enterprises use a staggering 320 AI cloud applications on average.

44% of threat detections originate from the cloud.

61% of security leaders agree their organization lacks the ability to identify and remediate exposures in their cloud environment.

61% do not have identity security controls in place to secure cloud infrastructure and workloads.

92% of organizations use between two and five cloud and SaaS platforms.

Half of IT leaders say the majority of their workloads are now cloud-based.

The most common attack vectors cited were: Data breaches (30%), Malware on devices (29%), Cloud or SaaS breaches (28%), Phishing (28%), and Insider threats (28%).

36% of sensitive files in the cloud are classified as high risk.

90% of IT and security leaders report managing hybrid cloud environments.

29% of respondents cite a lack of visibility and control over cloud-based data as their top challenge.

103 of 9,078 analyzed Android apps were found to use unprotected or misconfigured cloud storage. 4 of these Android apps were in the top 1000 of the PlayStore popularity list.

35% of financial organisations view cloud security as a high challenge.