Research Brief: The Need for Third-party Cloud Security Solutions to Standardize Security Across Environments
Research Brief

Jan 22, 2026
by Melinda Marks, Emily Marsh, Bill Lundell
Although cloud service providers (CSPs) increasingly offer security products and capabilities optimized for their cloud environments, organizations often look to third-party security vendors for additional security controls for workloads across varied environments. Recent research by Omdia investigated the key drivers behind the usage of third-party cloud security tools and what organizations need from them to secure their cloud workloads across environments.
 

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