"US and European IT Decision-Makers Have Different Cloud Security Priorities"
According to SUSE, increased cloud adoption has raised cloud security concerns among Information Technology (IT) teams, who are faced with challenges stemming from the widespread use of complex cloud environments. According to a survey, IT decision-makers have experienced an average of four cloud-related security incidents in the past year, with the number increasing to five in the US and decreasing to three in Europe. This contributes to the security concerns that hold back cloud technologies. Thirty-one percent of respondents cited cloud- or third-party-hosted data stores as their main cloud security concern. Runtime attacks launched by threat actors, security policy management, federation, and automation follow data stores as secondary concerns (29 percent each). Significantly more US IT decision-makers (35 percent) than European IT decision-makers (25 percent) cite security policy management, federation, and automation as their top cloud security concerns. This article continues to discuss key findings from SUSE's industry trend report "Securing the Cloud."