"The Cloud's Growing Impact on Cybersecurity"
The average organization uses 1,427 cloud services, while the average employee uses up to 36 cloud services, such as collaboration and file-sharing platforms. In 2023, 70 percent of all enterprise workloads will be hosted in the cloud, up from 40 percent in 2020. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) accelerate innovation by delivering new real-time insights into challenges and threats. For example, CrowdStrike's rapid advancements in AI and ML illustrate how endpoint security vendors leverage threat data to innovate quickly. As organizations lift and shift their workloads to the cloud, they face increased risks of data breaches, mistakenly misconfigured cloud platforms, and unstable Identity Access Management (IAM) and Privileged Access Management (PAM) coverage across hyperscalers and cloud platforms. Gartner expects that at least 99 percent of cloud security failures will be the user's fault, emphasizing the need to regularly train Information Technology (IT) and security teams on the most up-to-date cloud security practices. This article continues to discuss the new security challenges introduced by the growing cloud, why cloud security is driving innovation, and where cloud solutions have the greatest impact.