7 Cloud Security Predictions for 2022 to Help Organizations Protect Their Data


By Amit Shaked, CEO,

Data security is a C-suite imperative for 2022 and beyond. As organizational IT and security teams enabled hybrid work models, digitized processes and transformed business models, products and services, their security posture changed dynamically and often for the worse. Organized crime rings, nation states, and other cyberattackers have taken advantage of the chaos, capitalizing on weaker organizational controls and targeting end-users with an array of tactics. By mid-2021, of all organizations had reported a successful data breach, and 61 percent had paid a ransomware attacker to restore frozen data and systems.


Seven Cloud Security Predictions CISOs Can Use in 2022


Now, it’s time to right the ship. Since hybrid work models and digital business models are here to stay, IT and security teams will need to rethink how they can better protect data to prevent data breaches in the future. There’s a logical place to start: the public cloud.


In 2021, of cyberattacks involved external cloud assets, up from only 27 percent the prior year. While companies are cloud-enabling business processes at scale, data protection teams lack visibility into how they are storing and securing data across cloud services. In addition, many companies use multiple providers, which can easily result in inconsistent security processes being applied across cloud infrastructure, storage, software as a service applications, and other assets. Finally, cloud security is a shared responsibility: Providers ensure security for cloud services, while customers must secure data. All of these issues point to a need for organizations to improve their visibility into their sensitive cloud data and use tools to protect it, both at rest and in transit.


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