83% confirm that deep observability is now being discussed at the board level to better protect hybrid cloud environments.

Assets with both critical and easily exploitable issues were found across all cloud providers.

AWS showed the lowest rate for assets with both critical and easily exploitable issues at 0.02%.

70% of Security and IT leaders report their organization is actively considering repatriating data from public to private cloud due to security concerns.

54% of Security and IT leaders are reluctant to use AI in public cloud environments, citing fears around intellectual property protection.

Assets hosted by cloud providers other than AWS, Google, and Azure showed approximately 10 times higher rates of critical vulnerabilities compared to AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure.

Nine out of ten (91%) Security and IT leaders concede to making compromises in securing and managing their hybrid cloud infrastructure.

Alternative cloud and hosting providers showed rates ten times higher than AWS for assets with both critical and easily exploitable issues

Assets hosted by AWS and Google Cloud showed 0.04% with critical vulnerabilities.

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%).

47% say that a challenge in securing and managing hybrid cloud is the lack of comprehensive insight and visibility across their environments, including lateral movement in East-West traffic.

70% of Security and IT leaders now view the public cloud as a greater risk than any other environment.

38% of assets hosted by Google Cloud were vulnerable to at least one security issue or misconfiguration. This rate for Google Cloud was over 2.5x more than assets hosted by AWS.

Critical vulnerabilities (CVSS 9.0 or higher) were detected on assets hosted by all cloud providers, though uncommon.

10% of assets on hosting providers other than AWS, Google, and Azure had easily exploitable vulnerabilities. This compares to 5 percent hosted on Google Cloud with easily exploitable vulnerabilities and just 2 percent on AWS and Azure with easily exploitable vulnerabilities.

15% of assets hosted by AWS were vulnerable to at least one security issue or misconfiguration.

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%).

In cloud environments, in 70% of observed incidents, attackers gained access through logins from unfamiliar geographies.

44% of threat detections originate from the cloud.

Enterprises use a staggering 320 AI cloud applications on average.