Oracle, KPMG Cloud Threat Report Finds Confidence and Fear

Thirty-eight percent of security and IT professionals surveyed by Oracle and KPMG identified the ability to detect and react to security incidents in the cloud as their top security challenge. Unauthorized use of cloud services was the second most pressing concern, with 26 percent identifying it as the No. 1 challenge. Respondents, according to the Oracle and KPMG LLP Cloud Threat Report 2019, also exhibited confidence in the cloud: 72 percent reported feeling that the public cloud is more secure than their own data centers and are moving to a public cloud platform. And 71 percent reported that the majority of their data in the cloud is sensitive, which is up from 50 percent last year. The human element elicits a bit less confidence. More than nine in 10 respondents — 92 percent — are concerned with employees following cloud policies designed to protect data. Oracle and KPMG surveyed 450 professionals in private and public organizations in North America, Western Europe, and Asia for the second annual report.