This is alarming as cloud resources have become the biggest targets for cyberattacks, with SaaS applications (31%), cloud storage (30%) and cloud management infrastructure (26%) cited as the leading categories of attack.
Increased cloud usage across enterprises is widening the potential attack surface for threat actors.
The 2024 Thales Cloud Security Study reveals that 66% of organisations use more than 25 software-as-as-service (SaaS) applications and 47% of sensitive corporate data are stored in the cloud. Despite increased risks to sensitive data in the cloud, data encryption rates remain low, with less than 10% of enterprises encrypting 80% or more of their sensitive cloud data.
