2021 Thales Cloud Security Study - European Edition
The Challenges of Cloud Data Protection and Access Management in a Hybrid and Multicloud World
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated what has been a long-term broad adoption of cloud environments, including multicloud and hybrid deployments. Organisations need to extend and adapt their capabilities to take more control of their security efficiently and effectively in these new, dispersed environments, according to the 2021 Thales Cloud Security Study.
Analysis from 451 Research, part of S&P Global Market Intelligence, based on a survey commissioned by Thales of more than 2,600 security professionals worldwide, with more than 950 in Europe. 
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Multicloud is More than Mainstream
As more organisations adopt cloud-based environments, multicloud is now a reality.
Percentage of European organisations that have adopted multicloud:
58%
66%
have more than 25 SaaS applications
73%
have two or more PaaS providers
58%
have more than two IaaS providers
Sensitive Data in the Cloud is at Risk
While a strong movement to the cloud is in progress, there are limited security controls in place for what is a new infrastructure element for most.
Percentage of organisations that are encrypting less than half of sensitive data in multicloud environments:
83%
Download the full European report and read about the challenges of hybrid and multicloud data protection, and cloud security trends.
