For years, executives in the C-suites of countless organizations exhorted their IT teams to “move to the cloud.” With the cloud promising flexible capacity and scalability, increased agility, improved availability and more, countless organizations spun up cloud environments for everything from sales and marketing to operations and legal.
The good news is that the cloud is fundamentally delivering on these promises. According to the 2023 Cloud Security Report, 58 percent of cybersecurity professionals plan to run more than 50 percent of their workloads in the cloud. Sixty-nine percent of them report using two or more cloud providers. So why are so many organizations avoiding the cloud?
Two words—cloud security.
There is no question that the cloud offers plenty of advantages. However, the biggest challenges organizations face regarding cloud security are not about technology, but people and processes. In fact, 37 percent of organizations state that the biggest barrier to cloud adoption is a lack of qualified staff. Twenty-nine percent of respondents cite data security, loss and leakage risks as reasons to remain on the sidelines.
Secure Your Clients’ Cloud Journeys
The cloud can be complicated, and you need to manage your clients’ application journeys to ensure their assets are secure across multiple clouds as well as virtual and physical data centers. Misconfigurations and data leaks are not an option. Fortunately, Fortinet Cloud Security secures any application on any cloud while helping you achieve better visibility and control over your clients’ environments.
Seventy-six percent of organizations are using two or more clouds for integration of multiple services, scalability or business continuity reasons.1 This can result in an expanded attack surface for cybercriminals. Fortinet Cloud Security includes a portfolio of solutions that are tightly integrated with a broad ecosystem of cloud and third-party platforms and technologies, as well as the Fortinet Security Fabric. This empowers your clients to securely deploy on any cloud or virtual data center while having the benefit of consistent policies, centralized management and visibility and security automation and orchestration.
Learn how you can gain consistent security and centralized visibility and management, wherever your clients’ applications live with Fortinet’s Cloud Security solutions. You can also download your copy of the 2023 Cloud Security Report here.