"Deploying Cloud Security Tools a Top Priority for 60% Of Study Respondents"

Sixty percent of respondents in a new study by VMware said that the implementation of cloud security tools is their top priority. The study was a part of a larger study developed for the first day of Black Hat in Las Vegas, which found that attackers are performing more targeted and destructive attacks over 50 percent of the time. In regard to the cloud, 43 percent of respondents said over one-third of attacks targeted cloud workloads, with 22 percent having said that more than half were focused on cloud workloads. The study also revealed that malicious actors are using the cloud to island-hop along supply chains. Island hopping refers to the infiltration of large company networks by targeting third parties with lower levels of security. Tom Kellermann, VMware's head of cybersecurity strategy, expects cloud-jacking via public clouds to go mainstream this year, especially with the mass migrations to public clouds supporting distributed workforces. Vishal Jain, co-founder and CTO at Valtix, emphasized that enterprises are still trying to grasp the shared security model in the cloud and have underinvested in cloud-first security. This has resulted in a significant portion of attacks being aimed at cloud infrastructure and workloads. Companies need easily deployable and adaptable cloud-native security models. This article continues to discuss the key findings from VMware's new research regarding the deployment of cloud security tools and the importance of securing cloud environments. 

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