Cybersecurity statistics about cloud
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75% of leaders express concern about the geopolitical risks of storing and managing data in global cloud environments.
89% of leaders say cloud investments have made it easier to use AI.
91% of organizations say their cloud infrastructure provides the flexibility to adapt to new regulations.
Organizations have increased cloud spending by over 30% on average over the past year.
As of October 2025, there are over 14,700 Jenkins servers exposed to the internet that remain vulnerable to CVE-2024-23897.
99% of cloud identities were found to be over-privileged, creating significant security risks.
44% of true-positive security alerts from cloud security tools in Q3 2025 were driven by identity-related weaknesses.
52% of all confirmed identity-based alerts were due to identity-related privilege escalation.
71% of critical vulnerability alerts in Q3 2025 originated from just four legacy CVEs.
33% of raw CSPM alerts were identity-related, contributing to the operational burden on security teams.
27% of cloud storage is abandoned (unused data that inflates costs and widens the attack surface).
6% of the security staff budget for Fortune 500 organizations with 50+ security FTEs is allocated to Cloud security.
When asked which egress channels for the outflow of sensitive data does your organization worry most about, 61% said personal cloud storage.
35% of leaders at financial services firms say they are unprepared to recover effectively from a Cloud platform compromise.
60.19% of IT decision-makers at financial services firms reported that cloud infrastructure management (MS 365, Azure, AWS) is currently fully or partially managed by an MSP or MSSP.
Half of financial services firms plan to prioritize cloud adoption in 2026.
45% of elements involved in risk analysis are related to use of cloud computing.
72% of healthcare organizations say their organizations have experienced cloud/account compromises, which is an increase from 69% in 2024.
61% of healthcare organizations say cloud/account compromises resulted in disruption in patient care.
52% of healthcare organizations say cloud/account compromises resulted in longer length of patient stay.