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Research Brief: Data Continues to Shift to Public Cloud Environments
Jun 30, 2023
by
Enterprise Strategy Group Research
The use of public cloud services (SaaS and IaaS/PaaS) has been increasing over the past several years. Subsequently, organizations have migrated more data assets to cloud stores. As organizations find that the amount of cloud-resident sensitive data is increasing, the challenge to sufficiently secure this data, especially when distributed across multiple clouds, becomes greater. In light of the disparate and native controls and policies provided by individual cloud service providers (CSPs), organizations need to craft a comprehensive, defense-in-depth strategy to adequately address the data security challenge.
The complexity of cloud environments and the speed and scale of operations in the cloud drive the multitude of challenges organizations face in securing their cloud-resident sensitive data. The most difficult challenges include discovery and classifi…