As organizations continue to migrate workloads to the cloud, security concerns are high especially since the uptake of public cloud and hybrid solutions continue to open cloud environments to greater avenues of attack. Security is a key issue for users of cloud services with 75% confirming it is of vital importance to their operations.
Cloud security solutions are thus just as significant and when looking for a provider customers cited cost-effectiveness, managing deployment and cloud native security tools as their chief priorities. Customers prioritized product features, cost, vendor experience and application toolset as their main criteria. The main operational security issues customers need to deal with are enforcing compliance, managing a lack of visibility into infrastructure security and being able to set consistent security policies across cloud and private network environments. The continuing lack of qualified support staff continues to be an issue.