Cloud data
Cloud Security Creates Channel Opportunities
Cloud security requires a different approach and a new portfolio of technologies, and that offers channel partners the opportunity to act as a guiding hand.
Cloud Services Increase
The average organization analyzed in the report uses 1,427 cloud services to upload 18.5 TB of data to the cloud, an increase of 24% over the same quarter in 2015.
Sensitive Data Is Shared
18% of the documents uploaded to cloud-based file sharing and collaboration services contain sensitive data.
Unique Actions
Employees at the average enterprise collectively perform more than 2.7 billion unique actions in cloud services each month.
Under Attack
The average company reports 23 cloud-related security incidents each month, with more than half originating from malicious or negligent insiders. That’s an 18% increase year over year.
Monthly Threats
Insider threats: 94%
Compromised accounts: 79%
Privileged user threats: 58%
Data exfiltration: 50%
Alert Fatigue
32% of IT professionals ignore alerts because many of them are false positives.
Risky Controls
Only 20% of cloud providers support multifactor authentication; 17% delete data immediately on account termination; 9% encrypt data at rest; and 0.8% encrypt data with customer-managed keys.
Ownership Issues
Just 42% of cloud providers specify that customers own the data they upload to the service, and only 9% commit to not sharing data with third parties.
Top IaaS Platforms
Amazon: 36%
Microsoft Azure: 30%
Google Cloud Platform: 14%
IBM SoftLayer: 3%
Rackspace: 3%
Cloud Governance
69% of cloud services are either approved or permitted by corporate IT departments, and 31% of services are not allowed.