In these yearly State of Cloud Native Security Reports, more than 3,000 respondents around the world are surveyed about their cloud adoption strategies, budgets, experiences, and plans. Their responses shed light on the practices, tools, and technologies used to implement cloud workloads and manage security for cloud native architectures. As in the 2020 report, we aim to highlight the behaviors and correlated outcomes of organizations who succeeded in their cloud initiatives, as well as those who fell short. A clear differentiator appeared in how organizations addressed cloud security. This includes differences in how they implemented technologies and processes to support both high security posture, defined as the effectiveness of their cloud security efforts, and low security friction, defined as the degree to which cloud security is limiting their operations.
