Cloud usage drives cybersecurity
spending in SANS survey
he rapid migration to cloud-
based technologies is the
biggest disruptor worldwide
of operations and a key driver when
organisations plan their spending
increases, according to the results of
the latest SANS 2020 Cybersecurity
Spending Survey.
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Slightly more than 50% of respondents
ranked the increased use of public
cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service
(IaaS) implementations as the biggest
disruptor to security programmes in the
next 12 months. Based on that, 71% of
respondents reported seeing a need
to increase spending on cloud security
monitoring, followed by cloud access
security broker cloud-specific tools
(53%), staff skills training (52%) and
strong authentication (46%).
increased investment in people
would provide the biggest improvement
to their overall security posture,
followed distantly by process (19%)
and technology (18%). u
71% of respondents
reported seeing a
need to increase
spending on cloud
security monitoring.
“The SANS survey showed that rapid
movement of corporate services
and business applications to cloud-
based technology is the biggest factor
causing breakage in existing security
architectures as well as driving most
new security spending,” said John
Pescatore, SANS Director of Emerging
Security Trends. “Cloud monitoring and
cloud security access controls were
the top two spending areas, followed by
spending to increase security staff skills
to deal with new technologies, such as
the cloud, and to keep up with changes
in regulations as well as new threats.”
Overall, 57% of respondents feel that out
of people, process and technology, an
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