25% Of Respondents Say Their Organization’s Applications Are Not Fully Protected In The Public Cloud
Global survey highlights web application security challenge due to rapid cloud adoption as 86% of Indian respondents report cyber attacks
Highlights:
· 11% of Indian respondents report being targeted by a cyber-attack at least once, highlighting a serious global security challenge.
· An average of 8 hours spent on preventing and managing cyber-attacks by Indian respondents
· 25% of respondents say their organization’s applications are not fully protected in the public cloud
· Indian respondents understand the need to protect applications that can be accessed by external users (91%), involve e-commerce or PII (92%), or can be accessed via mobile devices (94%)
Barracuda, a trusted partner and leading provider of cloud-enabled
security solutions, today released key findings from a report titled Securing
Your Apps in the Borderless Cloud. The
report takes an in-depth look at public cloud adoption trends, network and
application vulnerabilities, and a variety of related security concerns amid
rapid cloud adoption.
The global survey, commissioned by Barracuda and conducted by
independent market researcher Vanson Bourne, includes responses from 750 IT
decision makers who are responsible for their organization’s cloud
infrastructure of which 250 were in APAC. They came from organizations of all
sizes and across a broad range of sectors.
The report highlights the rising security challenge and associated
costs in the
A quarter (25%) of Indian respondents do not feel they are fully
protected in the cloud and 58% of them fear that their day-to-day operations
might get crippled due to temporary shutdown of mission-critical applications.
Apart from this, falling behind the competitors (53%), fear of losing sensitive
and mission-critical data loss (52%). being subject to a successful
cyber-attack (50%) and lost customers (47%) are their top security
concerns. Despite the growing confidence in the public cloud in general,
65% of Indian respondents have added extra security solutions to their public
cloud deployments to protect it during access.
Most respondents realize the potential risks of application
vulnerabilities and understand the need to enhance the protection of web-facing
applications. They believe that they need to protect applications that can be
accessed by external users (91%), involve e-commerce or PII (92%), or can be
accessed via mobile devices (94%).