As businesses see more employees working remotely, deploy more services in the cloud and use a wider range of applications, they create complexity that increases the risk to their IT infrastructure and services.
The combination of these factors help to explain the growing reports of attacks, with nearly two-thirds (63%) of IT professionals reporting between 1 and 50 cyberattacks between 2021 and 2022, and almost 10% seeing over 251 incidents against their systems.
With every business a potential victim of a cyberattack, IT leaders need to ensure that the typical tools such as the latest firewalls, malware detection and virus checkers are supported by cloud-facing applications. These include cloud security posture management (CSPM) and cloud access security broker (CASB) solutions, backed up by strong compliance and governance efforts to protect the business at every step.