"Survey Reveals the Severity of Cloud Security Challenge"

The market research firm Propeller Insights surveyed 400 cloud engineering and security practitioners and leaders on behalf of Snyk. The results revealed that 80 percent who responded experienced at least one significant cloud security incident in the past year. Misconfigurations were the most common experience, followed by an actual data breach, an intrusion, and a cloud data leak. More than half of the respondents believe the risk of a cloud data breach at their organization will only increase in the coming year. A quarter of them expressed concerns that they have recently unknowingly experienced a cloud data breach. The growing demand for engineering resources was cited by nearly half of the respondents as the most significant impact of ineffective cloud security. Furthermore, 77 percent identified poor training and collaboration as a major challenge. According to Josh Stella, vice president and chief architect at Snyk, more organizations are struggling to keep up with security requirements as the number of workloads deployed in the cloud grows. As the next generation of cloud-native applications is deployed, cloud security may become even more difficult, he adds. Of the respondents, 41 percent believe cloud-native services increase complexity. The long-term hope is that as more responsibility for security is shifted to application developers, the security of cloud computing environments will improve overall. The problem is that most cloud computing infrastructure is provisioned programmatically by developers who have little to no cybersecurity expertise. As a result, mistakes are common among developers. Stella believes that the only way to address this issue is to incorporate more safeguards into the application development process to prevent errors from occurring. The goal should be to allow developers to deploy secure cloud applications without significantly slowing down the rate at which those applications are built. This article continues to discuss key findings and points shared in Snyk's State of Cloud Security Report. 

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