2024 Cloud Security Study.
Boom Times for the Cloud:
Is Security Ready?
Explore the 2024 Cloud Security Study with new insights on the latest cloud security trends and challenges
This report shares findings and insights from the 2024 Thales Cloud Security Study and focuses on results specific to the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region. Responses from 897 security and IT management practitioners and leaders from Australia, Hong Kong, India, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore and South Korea are compared to those of their global counterparts. While rapid cloud advances are driving opportunities for innovation, complexity-related risks and threats to data resilience are also growing. With these parallel advances in innovation and risk, opportunity and potential for harm, cloud security is cited as a top security concern in the APAC market.
This report looks at the responses from regional APAC enterprises regarding the factors driving these opportunities and concerns. While APAC respondents show similarities to the global survey population, this report notes differences where applicable.
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Key Findings
Cloud-based resources are top attack targets
The leading targets in the cloud for attacks are all cloud-based:
• 30% prioritized Cloud Storage
• 29% prioritized SaaS applications
• 27% prioritized cloud-hosted IaaS and PaaS apps
Cloud security is a top concern
Cloud security is the 2nd-most-pressing security discipline (63%) and top emerging security concern (73%).
It is also the top security spending category in both APAC (33%) and globally (33%).
Cloud data breaches remain high for APAC
About one in seven APAC respondents (15%) experienced a cloud data breach in the last 12 months.
Cloud complexity is a significant challenge to compliance and privacy
Almost half (49%) of APAC respondents say that securing the cloud is more complex than on-premises environments.
Concentration of sensitive data in the cloud is increasing
Nearly two-thirds (61%) of APAC organizations say that at least 40% of their cloud data is sensitive,
compared to 50% in 2021.
