As cyber threats diversify, organizations want streamlined, single solutions for safety and compliance in the cloud.
Solution providers, take note! As cyber threats and compliance requirements are growing in complexity and urgency, the overwhelming number of organizations say a growing cloud security skills gap is a top concern.
That’s among the prominent findings of the 2025 State of Cloud Security Report sponsored by Fortinet.
“(A) shortage of expertise in cloud security, (highlights) the need for automation, targeted upskilling, and resource optimization,” the report found. In its survey of more than 800 security professionals, 76 percent said there is a shortage of talent with cybersecurity skills .
Almost every one of those surveyed - 97 percent - lean toward unified cloud security. Among other reasons, they seek a unified dashboard that provides real-time visibility from end to end into threats, compliance, gaps, and policy configurations - the whole gamut.
“While cloud adoption offers substantial benefits, it also brings significant security challenges, with 61 percent of respondents reporting that security and compliance concerns are their top barriers to cloud adoption,” wrote Vince Hwang, vice president of cloud security at Fortinet, in a recent blog post referencing the study.
What’s Available to Fill Key Gaps
Security solution providers are positioned well to fill many organizations' skill gaps. Fortinet provides a unified platform - think Fortinet Security Fabric - to address a unified cloud security approach.
The Fortinet Security Fabric is a complete security platform that works through hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
Other notable pieces of the Fortinet unified offering include:
FortiCSPM, which provides Policy-as-Code that can formalize security and controls into automated rules and logic - with low false positives and a view across a customer’s cloud deployments.
FortiGuard Outbreak Alerts, a service that delivers real-time information on new and emerging threats and the specific hazard to an organization.
FortFlex, a flexible, daily-use licensing program that allows a customer to rapidly scale up or down to meet changing threats, organizational needs, and budgets.
“In addition, emerging trends like the integration of AI-driven threat detection, the rise of edge computing, and the increasing emphasis on zero-trust architectures are set to shape the next wave of cloud security solutions,” Hwang wrote on his blog, which also provides a link to the 2025 State of Cloud Security Report. “The time to prepare for these changes is now.”