Research shows companies are
embracing cloud-based security
tools, but concerns remain
are drivers for cloud adoption, but
considered less important. However,
when asked what concerns they have
about moving security tools to the cloud,
data privacy (30%) remains high on the
list, with unauthorised access (16%),
server outages (14%), integration with
other security tools (14%), and data
sovereignty (13%) also being raised.
xabeam, the Smarter SIEM
E company, has announced the
results of a security practitioner
survey that reveal while many companies
are beginning to migrate security tools
to the cloud, a significant number have
concerns. The survey, conducted at the
Cloud and Security Expo in London,
highlights data privacy, unauthorised
access, server outages and integration
as key concerns.
The survey shows a mixed picture when
it comes to firms migrating security
tools to the cloud. While just over half of
respondents (52%) began migrating to
cloud-based security products during or
before 2018, around a fifth (18%) waited
until 2019, 3% started in 2020, 13% have
not yet started and the remainder don’t
know when they’ll migrate.
Typically, organisations migrate security
tools to the cloud to minimise the
resources and overhead associated with
owning and maintaining on-premises
equipment and software. This means
security teams can avoid system sizing,
maintenance, uptime management
and product upgrades. Reducing
engineering effort to deploy and maintain
new solutions allows security analysts
to complete tasks faster and frees
engineers up to focus on other projects.
The survey results support this, with
improvements in monitoring and
tracking of attacks (29%) and reduced
maintenance (22%) considered the
most important gains from using cloudbased
security tools. CAPEX reductions
(18%), faster time to value (17%) and
access to the latest features (13%)
While 22% stated migration to the
cloud was not a priority for their
organisation, the results suggest a lack
of understanding about the migration
issue as a whole. Around a third
(32%) said they did not know what
concerns their organisation has about
moving security tools to the cloud.
Furthermore, despite about a third (32%)
of respondents saying they consider it
to be too difficult or too risky to migrate
security tools to the cloud, nearly half
said their preference is to migrate legacy
products to the cloud (46%) rather than
replace legacy on-premise products
with new cloud-native security tools
(54%). Organisations are protecting a
variety of data types with cloud-based
security tools, with email the most widely
protected (22%), followed by customer
information (21%), file-sharing (20%) and
personnel files (18%).
“We can expect more organisations to
migrate their security tools to the cloud
this year as security professionals
increasingly see the benefits of hosted
cloud offerings, which provide the full
functionality of traditional on-premise
solutions. Added benefits include
reduced cost and maintenance issues,
as well as eliminating the need to
route cloud data to on-premises data
centres,” said Sam Humphries, Security
Strategist, Exabeam. u
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