Defend Your Data: Why Cloud Workload Protection Should be Your Top Priority

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Data is at the heart of every successful business and must be protected at all costs, especially with the increased security risk cloud adoption can bring.

The frequency and intensity of cyberattacks are rising, but by not maintaining your defenses, you risk compromising sensitive data. Therefore, CIOs and other key stakeholders must secure the workforce at the workload level, not just at the endpoint.

Cloud workloads are the mainstay of most businesses today, with over 90% of organizations operating in either a hybrid, public or private cloud, virtual machines and containers. While the cloud offers low-cost, high-growth solutions to pressing business needs, it also needs to be defended fiercely against the dangers of leaks, breaches, theft and accidental loss.

The cloud is the dominant force behind most business computing today. Yet, while almost all firms rush to the cloud, with Flexera highlighting that 94% of enterprises use it in some capacity, our research points out that 45.5% of firms experienced challenges in managing multi-cloud data. Firms also need to prove compliance with various regulations, even as their cloud footprint races into new territory across a growing platform of applications and data repositories.

As part of business strategies to manage and protect data, cloud workload protection is an increasingly popular service for managing these issues.