Cloud workloads increase but security concerns remain

A new study from the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) and cloud security company AlgoSec finds that over half of organizations are running 41 percent or more of their workloads in public clouds, compared to just a quarter in 2019. But 11 percent of respondents have reported a cloud security incident in the past year with the three most common causes being cloud provider issues (26 percent), security misconfigurations (22 percent), and attacks like denial of service exploits (20 percent). Security is the leading concern surrounding cloud deployments (58 percent), followed by a lack of cloud expertise (47 percent), migrating workloads… [Continue Reading]