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This year, new stressors entered the fray. Many organizations expanded cloud partnerships and platforms to satisfy business requirements, inadvertently creating more blind spots and misconfiguration errors for IT security teams to track. Limited visibility into cloud-based inventory and lack of familiarity with multiple platforms have raised the stakes as well. Security personnel are desperate for solutions that can identify vulnerabilities before adversaries can, but they lack the budget, skill sets, or manpower to get it done.
In this report, we take a candid look at how security decision-makers are planning their next steps in the cloud journey. Though hazards abound and trials may lie ahead, we believe awareness of these factors can help organizations prioritize cloud security with the care and rigor it deserves.
