LATEST INTELLIGENCE
PRESENTED BY
CLOUD ADOPTION AND
RISK REPORT 2019
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Executive Summary
Cloud services bring a momentous opportunity
to accelerate business through their ability
to quickly scale, allow us to be agile with our
resources, and provide new opportunities for
collaboration. As we all take advantage of the
cloud, there’s one thing we can’t forget – our
data. When using software-as-a-service (SaaS)
we are responsible for the security of our data,
and need to ensure it is accessed appropriately.
When using infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) or
platform-as-a-service (PaaS), we are additionally
responsible for the security of our workloads,
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and need to ensure the underlying application
and infrastructure components are not
misconfigured.
Through analysis of billions of anonymized
cloud events across a broad set of enterprise
organizations, we can determine the current
state of how the cloud is truly being used, and
where our risk lies. Consider that nearly a quarter
of data in the cloud is sensitive, and that sharing
of sensitive data in the cloud has increased 53%
year-over-year. If we don’t appropriately control
access and protect our data from threats, we put
our enterprises at risk. ◊
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