EDITOR’S QUESTION
D ADOPTION
SSFUL ACROSS
its-all solutions
in the cloud, so it is
hat per-application
ing more widespread
Ley, Senior EMEA
tworks.
nique and serves a
h as finance, sales,
ill have end-users
an a hundred to into
has a different risk
n from a breach being
to costing the business
th of damage.”
EA organisations
pliance as the biggest
aging applications
nments, which was
an any other region
plexities stemming
Data Protection
rns included applying
olicies across all
safeguarding against
%) and migrating
clouds and data
curity postures,
d lower confidence
to withstand an
application-layer attack in the public cloud
(only 15% were ‘very confident’ they
could do so), versus in an on-premises
data centre (30%) or via colocation
deployments (20%).
The cloud security challenge is further
exacerbated by a growing industry
skill gap: as many as 66% of EMEA
organisations believe they lack necessary
security talent going forward. America
is closely behind with 65% having
claimed the same. The problem was most
pronounced in the APJC region where it
was an issue for 76%.
A TOTAL OF
27% OF EMEA
RESPONDENTS
ALSO CLAIMED
THEY WILL HAVE
MORE THAN
HALF OF THEIR
APPLICATIONS
IN THE CLOUD BY
THE END OF 2020.
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