New research from Centrify – provider of modern privileged access management (PAM) solutions – reveals that 58% of UK business decision makers have admitted that security remains the biggest barrier to public cloud adoption in their organisations.
The research – conducted by independent polling agency, Censuswide, via a survey of 200 business decision makers in large and medium-sized enterprises in the UK – also revealed that 35% of the organisations who have adopted cloud are less than 80% confident that it is completely secure.
When questioned about security weaknesses in their companies, 45% of decision makers agreed that it is the increasing amount of machine identities and service accounts, such as those used by servers and applications, that are becoming the largest exposure point for their organisation.
Interestingly, the findings also revealed that more than one in four (28%) companies have already been targeted by a cloud hacking attempt since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in early 2020.
Most worryingly, despite continued requirements on enterprises for digital transformation and rapid innovation, 31% of business decision makers admitted that their development teams are more interested in getting around security than building it into the DevOps pipeline, posing a potentially bleak cyber security outlook for 2021.
Kamel Heus, VP EMEA for Centrify, remarked: “Adapting to the Covid-19 pandemic has been a bumpy ride for many businesses and, in most cases, companies have had to adopt the public cloud in at least some capacity due to the level of scalability, availability, and efficiency it provides for distributed workforces.
“Whilst the common misperception is that cloud security is quite different to that of on-premises infrastructure, it is by no means less secure if common security protocols are followed, and security controls are applied.”
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