Optimizing cloud security is a top security convergence goal for 39% of German organizations.

32% of respondents in Spain identify optimizing cloud security as a top security convergence goal.

36% of respondents in Italy identify optimizing cloud security as a top security convergence goal.

Optimizing cloud security is a top security convergence goal for 43% of organizations in France.

Optimizing cloud security is a top security convergence goal for 36% of US organizations.

The top three investment priorities when allocating cyber budgets are: Artificial intelligence (AI) (36%), Cloud security (34%), and Network security and zero trust (28%).

AI (38%) and Cloud security (32%) are the top two areas where organisations are prioritising the use of managed services

The top three priority areas for deploying agentic AI solutions are cloud security (39%), data protection (39%), and cyber defence and operations (38%).

41% of C-level executives cite adopting AI tools as their top focus, while 35% of mid-level managers prioritize strengthening cloud security and identity management.

Approximately 70% of cloud AI workloads contain at least one unremediated vulnerability

Tenable Research found CVE-2023-38545—a critical curl vulnerability—in 30% of cloud AI workloads

91% of Amazon SageMaker users have at least one notebook that, if compromised, could grant unauthorized access

77% of organizations have the overprivileged default Compute Engine service account configured in Google Vertex AI Notebooks

5% of organizations using Amazon Bedrock have at least one overly permissive bucket

14% of organizations using Amazon Bedrock do not explicitly block public access to at least one AI training bucket