2017 State Of Cloud Adoption And Security

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2017 State Of Cloud Adoption And Securitys
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These and many other insights are from the
recently published report, Building Trust in a
Cloudy Sky The State of Cloud Adoption and
Security (25 pp., PDF, opt-in). Late last year
Intel Security surveyed over 2,000 professionals
for its annual cloud security research study. The
2,009 respondents were drawn from a third-party
database of IT and technical decision makers to
represent a diverse set of countries, industries,
and organization sizes, with a specific focus on
the financial services and healthcare industries.
After screening out those not involved cloud
adoption and deployment decisions, 1,400 senior
technical professionals were included. Please see
pages 6 and 7 for the study for additional
details on the methodology.
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Key insights from the study include the following

• In 15 months, 80 of all IT budgets will be
  committed to cloud apps and solutions.
• Cloud First is now a global priority for
  organizations that prefer deploying applications
  that can be purchased as a service or deployed in
  the cloud. Many organizations are moving quickly
  to Cloud First to keep pace with their partner
  and supplier networks. Being able to deliver an
  excellent customer experience regardless of where
  and how a customer chooses to buy is a strong
  catalyst moving organizations to adopt Cloud
  First strategies as well. The study found that
  the percentage of IT professionals who stated
  they dont think their IT budget will ever be 80
  cloud dropped by 50 from 12 in 2015 to 6 in
  2016.

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Average number of months respondents believe it
will be until 80 of their organizations
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• Hybrid cloud adoption grew 3X in the last year,
  increasing from 19 to 57 of organizations
  surveyed.
• The study also found that the number of cloud
  services that organizations are using dropped
  from 43 in 2015 to 29 in 2016. The consolidation
  of cloud services combined with the rapid growth
  of hybrid cloud is a leading indicator of greater
  cloud platform maturity in enterprises. Many are
  setting aggressive goals to create Cloud First
  apps internally that can replace legacy
  on-premise apps that no longer scale to their
  current and future business model needs.

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• Public cloud platform adoption is highest in
  services companies (28), with engineering (30)
  and government (29) having the highest adoption
  of private clouds.
• Private cloud-only adoption is lowest in services
  companies (16) due to concerns over IT security
  skills. Media organizations (17) also have low
  private cloud adoption due to the insufficient
  visibility of vulnerability Insurance companies
  prioritize compliance and the location of cloud
  service providers data centers and data storage
  outside of the country of operations.

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• Just 23 of organizations today completely trust
  public clouds to keep their data secure.
• A year ago, only 13 trusted public clouds. This
  76 jump in trust for one year is attributable to
  public cloud platforms investing more development
  effort and resources in security features and
  support. From authentication to more complex
  secured APIs, public cloud platform providers are
  hardening every aspect of their systems to ensure
  greater security and scalability. This strategy
  is paying off with the total number of
  organizations who distrust clouds dropping from
  50 to 29.

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To what extent do you trust the following to keep
your organizations sensitive data secure?
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• Fully integrated (50) and unified security
  solutions (47) are enabling organizations to
  increase their trust in the security of public
  clouds.
• The greater the integration of an organizations
  security solutions across multiple cloud
  environments, the more likely they are to store
  some or all of their sensitive data in a public
  cloud service. The following graphic compares an
  organizations use of public clouds by the level
  of integration with security solutions.

Does your organizations public cloud service
store your organizations sensitive data?
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83 of organizations are actively using
containers today. 36 are using them inside IT,
18 outside IT, and 29 both inside and outside
of IT. Containers tend to be used in higher
quantities per host than virtual machines but
last for a small fraction of the time, making
them more challenging to protect. There is an
opportunity for cloud security vendors to further
differentiate themselves by adding much-needed
advanced security solutions for containers into
their cloud service strategsies.
Does your organization use containers (e.g.
Docker or Lynx)?
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60 of engineering firms say that a lack of
security skills is slowing down their cloud
adoption plans. Across all respondents, 36
report they are experiencing a scarcity of skills
yet they are continuing with their plans anyway.
The countries most in need of cloud security
specialists include Japan, Mexico, and the Gulf
Coast Council (GCC) (Saudi Arabia and the United
Arab Emirates). The following is an analysis of
how a shortage of security skills is affecting
cloud adoption in organizations.
Is a shortage of cybersecurity skills affecting
your organizations usage of cloud computing?
(grouped by organization size)
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• Australia (33) and Canada (32) are global
  leaders in public cloud adoption, with Gulf Coast
  Council (GCC) (Saudi Arabia and the United Arab
  Emirates) (30) leading in private cloud
• The study found that Australians are most focused
  on the challenges of having consistent security
  controls across legacy and virtualized
  infrastructures.. Canadians are most concerned
  about maintaining compliance across hybrid
  service. GCCs are concerned about public cloud
  costs and how reliable cloud providers can meet
  their SLAs. Japan has the lowest adoption rate of
  private clouds (7) driven by concerns regarding
  staff security skills.

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Source is From https//www.forbes.com/sites/loui
scolumbus/2017/04/23/2017-state-of-cloud-adoption-
and-security/53d0735c1848
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