Cloud computing is transforming organizations, offering the benefits of agility, flexibility and innovation. Security has often been cited as an inhibitor to cloud adoption, but high levels of public cloud adoption across the globe signify that cloud computing benefits outweigh perceived security risks.
New risks and vulnerabilities are created when non-IT teams scale cloud instances up and down and when organizations incorrectly assume that their cloud services provider (CSP) is responsible for all of their data and asset security. According to Gartner Research, by 2020, 95% of cloud security failures will be the customer's fault.