Organizations experience only 7 true cloud security events per year.

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

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%).

64% of organisations operate in hybrid-cloud environments.

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

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

78% of organisations employ governance frameworks for cloud security.

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

Only 13% of organizations successfully correlate alerts between cloud security tools.

Only 17% of organisations still operate in a single-cloud environment.

Of security teams who are not fully confident in their cloud security, 79% worry about unauthorized cloud services bypassing security measures.

Top challenges in managing cloud vulnerabilities include Budget constraints (35%), Integrating vulnerability management with existing workflows (34%), and Lack of skilled personnel (32%).

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

83% of respondents cited attacks on local or cloud storage as a top risk, ranking second only to phishing.

27% of assets hosted by Azure were vulnerable to at least one security issue or misconfiguration.

Nearly nine in 10 (89%) Security and IT leaders cite deep observability as fundamental to securing and managing hybrid cloud infrastructure.

Assets hosted by Azure showed 0.07% with critical vulnerabilities.

91% of Security and IT leaders are recalibrating hybrid cloud risk in the AI era.