McAfee releases special edition of
Cloud and Risk Adoption Report
McAfee surveyed 1,000 enterprise
organisations worldwide and combined
results with insights from billions of
anonymised cloud events seen every
month by McAfee’s CASB, MVISION
Cloud. The results demonstrate that a wide
range of organisations accelerate their
business from the use of cloud services.
However, there is a striking divide
between organisations which have
addressed their shared responsibility for
protecting data in the cloud and those
who have not – organisations were over
35% more likely to launch new products,
speed time to market and expand to new
markets with the cloud when proactively
addressing security of their data in the
cloud through the use of a CASB.
Rajiv Gupta, Senior Vice President, Cloud
Security, McAfee
cAfee, the device-to-cloud
cybersecurity company, has
released a special edition of
its Cloud and Risk Adoption Report,
focused on the business impact of
cloud services and how organisations
around the world are addressing
security gaps to accelerate their
businesses with the cloud.
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Most sensitive data is under the
IT team’s control: Results showed
that 65% of enterprise data lives in
collaboration and business software-
as-a-service (SaaS) applications, 25%
There is a striking
divide between
organisations which
have addressed their
shared responsibility
for protecting data in
the cloud and those
who have not.
Gap between secure enablement
and cloud adoption: Only 36% of
organisations said they could enforce
data loss prevention in the cloud and
only 33% could control the collaboration
settings that determine how their data
is shared. In the case of IaaS, only
26% said they could audit configuration
settings, widening the gap between risky
and secure cloud adoption.
A minority of organisations
experiencing the full potential of
business acceleration: Although the
likelihood of launching new products,
speeding time to market and expanding
to new markets is higher when a CASB
is part of their cloud security strategy,
only one in three companies surveyed
are currently using one.
“This research shines a light on
organisations who are leading the
charge in cloud adoption, prioritising the
security of their data as they roll out new
cloud services and winning in the market
because of the actions they are taking,”
said Rajiv Gupta, Senior Vice President,
Cloud Security, McAfee.
“Organisations often tell us how
much faster their business moves
when security is addressed in the
cloud and it is exciting for us now to
quantify this experience and share our
data and recommendations with the rest
of the market.” u
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Cloud services are the most significant
advance in IT since the introduction
of the Internet itself and most modern
organisations benefit from the
collaboration, scalability and cost-
effectiveness enabled by the use of cloud
services. With an increasing amount
of sensitive data stored in the cloud,
organisations are also finding challenges
in managing their risk, which holds many
back from realising their full potential.
This edition of the McAfee Cloud
Adoption and Risk Report also revealed
the following:
in infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) and
only 10% in ‘Shadow IT’ unknown to the
IT department. IT teams are subscribing
to these cloud applications themselves,
effectively fulfilling many employee
needs that were previously unmet or
were met through the use of ‘Shadow IT’.