Oracle and KPMG study finds that confusion over cloud security responsibilities, lack of visibility, and shadow IT complicate corporate security.
Companies continue to move business critical workloads and their most sensitive data to the cloud. Yet, security challenges remain, according to the second annual Oracle and KPMG Cloud Threat Report 2019. The report found that 72 percent of respondents feel the public cloud is more secure than their own data center; consequently, they are moving their data to the cloud. However, visibility gaps remain that can make it hard for businesses to understand where and how their critical data is handled in the cloud.
The survey also found a projected 3.5 times increase in the number of organizations with more than half of their data in the cloud from 2018 to 2020. 71 percent of organizations indicated that a majority of this cloud data is sensitive, up from 50 percent last year. However, the vast majority (92 percent) expressed concerns about employees not following cloud policies that protect this data.
The Oracle and KPMG report found that the mission-critical nature of cloud services has made cloud security a strategic imperative. Cloud…
