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T dedicated to defining standards , certifications and best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment , has released the findings of its latest survey , Cloud Security and Technology Maturity . Commissioned by CyberRes – a Micro Focus line of business and one of the world ’ s largest enterprise software providers – the survey offers insight into organisations ’ current and future plans regarding cloud strategy , security strategy , cloud services and cloudrelated technologies .

Cloud Security Alliance survey finds uneven adoption of emerging technologies

he Cloud Security Alliance ( CSA ), a leading organisation

T dedicated to defining standards , certifications and best practices to help ensure a secure cloud computing environment , has released the findings of its latest survey , Cloud Security and Technology Maturity . Commissioned by CyberRes – a Micro Focus line of business and one of the world ’ s largest enterprise software providers – the survey offers insight into organisations ’ current and future plans regarding cloud strategy , security strategy , cloud services and cloudrelated technologies .

“ Cloud is a continuously evolving space with new services , strategies and technologies springing up seemingly overnight ,” said Hillary Baron , Lead Author and Research Analyst , Cloud Security Alliance . “ It ’ s imperative , therefore , that organisations regularly change and adapt their approach to cloud and cloud security . While many of the survey ’ s findings were in line with what we would expect , it was surprising that some technologies that have garnered the most hype are not what organisations are planning to implement .”
Despite the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation ( GDPR ) in 2018 , privacy-by-design is in the development stage with two-thirds of the organisations ( 65 %) either currently building or planning to build the strategies , while only 8 % of respondents indicated having a fully implemented privacy-by-design strategy . Similarly , the survey found that while Blockchain and distributed ledger technology have been hyped for years , implementation
rates have stagnated , likely as a result of high failure rates stemming from a lack of technical knowledge coupled with a high demand on resources . Quantumsafe security and 5G are also not seeing widespread implementation to date , with further analysis needed to analyse causes and predict a more robust implementation timeline .
“ The results of this survey were just as notable for what it did find , as what it didn ’ t ,” said Satya Divadari , Head of Enterprise Security Architecture ,
CyberRes , a Micro Focus line of business . The growing popularity of Artificial Intelligence , Machine Learning and Zero Trust , for instance , was definitely in keeping with what we have been hearing anecdotally across the industry , but there were also some surprises in what companies aren ’ t using . While multi-cloud adoption is strongly favoured , many organisations are facing challenges in taking deployments to a next level . There is a higher need to provide security technologies that help alleviate these concerns .” u
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