Most popular governance frameworks for cloud security used: NIST Cybersecurity Framework (40%), ISO/IEC 27001 (31%), SOC 2 Compliance (28%).

78% of organisations employ governance frameworks for cloud security.

44% of organisations say their process for monitoring and managing cloud security is highly automated.

46% of respondents grapple with cloud security tool alert fatigue.

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

79% of organisations use AI technologies to monitor and manage cloud security.

A striking 38% of SecOps professionals identify the Cloud Security team as their most difficult collaboration partner during incidents.

The Platform team is identified as the most difficult collaboration partner by 31% of SecOps professionals.

Future Cloud Resource Gaps (anticipated in the next 12 months): Limited budgets (45%), Talent shortages (42%), and Insufficient automation (34%).

Establishing separate cloud security teams is a practice adopted by 63% of companies.

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.

86% of organisations have seen a measurable reduction in security breaches due to better visibility and proactive security measures from open cloud security tools.

Organizations experience only 7 true cloud security events per year.

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

89% of respondents report that their current processes fail to detect active cloud threats.

Technologies anticipated to have the greatest impact on cloud security in the next three years: AI and ML-driven security analytics (27%), Open source cloud security tools and technologies (17%), Automated threat intelligence and response (16%).

64% of organisations operate in hybrid-cloud environments.

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

55% of organisations operate in multi-cloud setups.

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