Nearly two-thirds (64%) of respondents ranked cloud security among their top five security priorities.

Only 66% of organisations have implemented multifactor authentication (MFA)

61% of organisations use five or more tools for data discovery, monitoring, or classification.

85% of organisations say at least 40% of their cloud data is sensitive.

55% of respondents report cloud environments are more complex to secure than on-premises infrastructure. This represents a 4-percentage-point increase from last year.

Over half of cloud data is now classified as sensitive.

Four of the top five most targeted assets in reported attacks are cloud-based.

Over half (52%) of respondents are prioritising AI security investments over other security needs.

74% of transportation and logistics organizations rely on a hybrid mix of private data centres and cloud environments

35% of respondents said cost is the reason why AI workloads are in a combination of private cloud and on-premises environments.

62% of organizations have at least one vulnerable AI package.

Nearly a third of cloud assets are neglected today.

For public cloud deployments, the highest ranking challenges (at 43%) are migration of apps and data, and technical skills or feasibility.

84% of organizations now use AI in the cloud.

The shift toward multi-cloud environments is driving a 125% increase in collaborative monitoring models.

93% of organizations have at least one privileged service account, linked to Kubernetes adoption

50% of respondents said the specific needs of AI workloads are the reason why AI workloads are in a combination of private cloud and on-premises environments.

AI adoption ranks among the top three reasons for private cloud use.

85% of organizations have plaintext secrets embedded in their source code repositories.

Each neglected cloud asset contains on average 115 vulnerabilities.