Coalfire Releases 2020 Cloud Security Report

Coalfire Releases 2020 Cloud Security Report

/PRNewswire/ — Coalfire, a provider of cybersecurity advisory and assessment services, today released its latest research report, The Smartest Path to Your…

Coalfire Releases 2020 Cloud Security Report

KEY HIGHLIGHTS
Cost was seen as a critical factor in cloud migration planning with many organizations having it as an expected business outcome, yet only 36% of survey respondents indicated that they realized cost savings. Proper planning was identified as the linchpin to successful cloud migration that leads to real business outcomes. Other key research findings include:

• Strategy
  • Beyond cost savings, more commonly reported business outcomes were increased responsiveness to customer needs (45%) and accelerated time to market (42%)
• Planning
  • Planning to use legacy teams is risky, yet only 28% plan to augment existing teams with the outside expertise necessary
  • Despite the large blind spots created by not conducting a cloud readiness assessment, fewer than 50% of respondents plan to do so
  • Also troubling is the fact that fewer than 40% intend to appoint a management steering committee to ensure alignment from beginning to end, a proven best practice
• Adoption
  • The “shift-left” approach addresses quality review and testing earlier, thus reducing the chances that production defects lead to exploitation risks
  • The most prepared cybersecurity leaders initially integrate only a small number of applications to a security platform starting with low impact/low risk applications
• Operations
  • Partnering your security practitioners with your cloud engineers helps ensure that any code and automation development or changes are supportive of security policy automations
  • 67% of respondents plan to use code and automation