When migrating workloads to private clouds, the top challenges are managing apps post-migration, securing hybrid environments, and lack of technical skills or feasibility, each cited by 38% of respondents

51% of respondents said compliance and regulatory demands are the reason why AI workloads are in a combination of private cloud and on-premises environments.

76% of organizations have at least one public-facing asset that enables lateral movement.

Private cloud spending at the $10M+ per year level will increase from 43% in 2024 to 53.6% in 2025. This represents a 24% growth rate in private cloud spending for these cohorts. This compares to just 12% growth in public cloud spending for the same cohorts.

56% of respondents said enhanced security is the reason why AI workloads are in a combination of private cloud and on-premises environments.

More than half of all AI workloads already reside in a combination of private cloud and on-premises environments.

36% of organizations have at least one cloud asset supporting more than 100 attack paths.

25% of organisations are still using manual processes for cloud security.

9 in 10 users (90%) agree open cloud security tools are a primary driver of innovation in their security programmes.

Security teams receive an average of 4,080 alerts per month from multiple cloud security tools.

Of security teams who are not fully confident in their cloud security, 71% do not believe their current tools can cover all aspects of their cloud environment.

The manufacturing, transport, and logistics industries are 88% more likely than average to use manual cloud security processes still.

It takes an average of 7.7 days, up to 30 days, to correlate alerts across cloud tools and organizational silos.

55% of organisations operate in multi-cloud setups.

85% of organisations still using manual processes are planning to automate within the next 12 months.

Of security teams who are not fully confident in their cloud security, 68% cite the cost of operationalising cloud security tools as too high.

96% of security teams say they are confident in their cloud security.

63% of organizations deploy more than five cloud runtime security tools.

Organisations detect an average of 17 vulnerabilities in their cloud environments per week.

36% of healthcare leaders admit their current cybersecurity tools cannot protect cloud-based patient data.