Cloud native computing adoption sees increase in security concerns

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While cloud native adoption has transformed the way organisations build modern applications, it has also resulted in increased security threats and concerns, according to new research by Snyk. Snyk's inaugural State of Cloud Native Application Security Report found that more than half of companies surveyed experienced a security incident due to misconfiguration or a known vulnerability in their cloud native applications, and developers are three times more likely to view security as their responsibility versus their security peers. It also found deploying automation makes it 17 times more likely that security tests run daily or more frequently. "We are at a pivot point in terms of the evolution of both the developers role as well as a transformation within the security industry as a whole," says Guy Podjarny, co-founder and president,...

CloudCheckr survey says cloud computing adoption is accelerating

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Join Transform 2021 this July 12-16. Register for the AI event of the year. Cloud transformation is moving quickly, according to a report released today by cloud visibility management platform CloudCheckr. In a survey of over 300 IT professionals and business stakeholders at companies with more than 500 employees, 57% reported that more than half of their infrastructure is in the cloud and 64% expected they will be fully in the public cloud within five years. The global public cloud computing market is set to exceed $362 billion in 2022, according to Statista. (In 2018 alone, Amazon Web Services earned $26 billion in revenue for parent company Amazon.) IDG reports that the average cloud budget is up from $1.62 million in 2016 to a whopping $2.2 million today. But cloud adoption continues to present challenges for enterprises of any size....

How cloud adoption has become essential to digital transformation

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