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We've curated 219 cybersecurity statistics about Cloud to help you understand how threats like data breaches and misconfigurations are affecting cloud environments in 2025, along with best practices for securing your digital assets in the cloud.
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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.
46% say that a key challenge in securing and managing hybrid cloud infrastructure is lack of clean, high-quality data to support secure AI workload deployment (46%).
54% of Security and IT leaders are reluctant to use AI in public cloud environments, citing fears around intellectual property protection.
91% of Security and IT leaders are recalibrating hybrid cloud risk in the AI era.
70% of Security and IT leaders report their organization is actively considering repatriating data from public to private cloud due to security concerns.