Palo Alto Networks Global State of Cloud-Native Security Survey Reveals 90% of Organizations Cannot Detect, Contain and Resolve Cyberthreats Within an Hour

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[{"type":"text","content":"Third annual report identifies top security gaps and challenges for organizations operating in the cloud\nSANTA CLARA, Calif., March 7, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Palo Alto Networks (NASDAQ: PANW), the global cybersecurity leader, today published its 2023 State of Cloud-Native Security Report. The report surveyed more than 2,500 C-level executives around the world to better understand their cloud adoption strategies, and how those strategies are working.\nWith organizations of all sizes moving more of their operations to the cloud, a majority are struggling to automate cloud security and mitigate risks. It's one reason why many companies are trying to improve security earlier in the development process, and looking for fewer vendors that can offer more security capabilities.\nCloud Use Has Grown, Along With Security Concerns - The expansion of hybrid work during the pandemic drove organizations to expand their use of clouds by more than 25%. As a result, DevOps teams are being pressed to deliver production code at warp speed — making application security more complex, and putting pressure on security organizations to keep pace.\nMost Organizations are Slow to Detect and Respond to Threats - 90% of organizations we surveyed said they cannot detect, contain and resolve cyber threats within an hour. Bad actors are working just as fast as developers to take advantage of organizations' vulnerabilities. What could go wrong often does go wrong and any cloud asset that is inadvertently exposed to the internet can be compromised within minutes. Detecting threats in real-time represents the new frontier of cloud security.\nTeams Don't Understand Their Security Responsibilities - When asked about the challenges of moving to the cloud, respondents' top concerns remained unchanged from our 2020 report: struggles with comprehensive security, compliance, and technical complexity. A large majority (78%) of organizations said they have distributed responsibility for cloud security to individual teams, but almost half (47%) said a majority of their workforce does not understand their security responsibilities.\nA Greater Need for Code-to-Cloud Security - As more applications are being built in the cloud using off-the-shelf software, there's a risk that any vulnerability in the development process could compromise an entire application later on. That's ...

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