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2025 Cloud Security Study

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Nearly two-thirds (64%) of respondents ranked cloud security among their top five security priorities.

Cloud Security priorities

17% of respondents identified cloud security as their number one priority.

Cloud Security priorities

55% of respondents report cloud environments are more complex to secure than on-premises infrastructure. This represents a 4-percentage-point increase from last year.

57% of organisations use five or more encryption key managers.

Cloud Tools Encryption

Enterprises now use an average of 85 SaaS applications, contributing to security tool sprawl.

Cloud SaaS Enterprise

Four of the top five most targeted assets in reported attacks are cloud-based.

Over half (52%) of respondents are prioritising AI security investments over other security needs.

Cloud AI Investment

68% of respondents reported a rise in access-based attacks.

61% of organisations use five or more tools for data discovery, monitoring, or classification.

85% of organisations say at least 40% of their cloud data is sensitive.

Cloud Cloud data Sensitive data

Over half of cloud data is now classified as sensitive.

Cloud Cloud data Sensitive data

Only 66% of organisations have implemented multifactor authentication (MFA)

The average number of public cloud providers per organisation has risen to 2.1.

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