CloudPassage, Crowd Research Partners Report Reveals Need for Cloud Security Tools, Talent

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - March 30, 2017) - CloudPassage, Crowd Research Partners and other cloud security vendors have released the 2017 Cloud Security Report, revealing the concerns of cyber security practitioners around cloud adoption and related security roadblocks. The report is based on the results of an online survey of over 350,000 cyber security professionals conducted by the Information Security Community on LinkedIn.

"This is feedback straight from the trenches -- illuminating the most pressing concerns of cloud adoption, management, and security," said David Appelbaum, chief marketing officer of CloudPassage. "Understanding where security practitioners see gaps in their legacy processes, practices, and tools helps us help them as they begin migrating more of their critical infrastructure to the cloud."

Key findings from the report include:

• Concerns over cloud security present the biggest barrier to adoption. Survey respondents cited protection against data loss as the biggest priority (57 percent), while 49 percent of respondents were concerned with threats to data privacy. Another 47 percent were worried about breaches of confidentiality.
• Evolving security needs require an evolving talent pool. 53 percent of organizations surveyed want to train and certify their current IT staff to meet the need for qualified security professionals. Alternatively, 30 percent are partnering with a managed service provider (MSP), 27 percent are leveraging software solutions, and 26 percent are hiring dedicated staff.
• 78 percent of organizations surveyed have realized that traditional security tools are not capable of meeting the unique challenges cloud adoption presents.

CloudPassage Halo, the company's award-winning automated security platform, is at the forefront of solving many of the issues highlighted in the report. Halo can be used in place of multiple traditional security products, integrating with DevOps tools such as Chef, Puppet, Splunk, Ansible and Jenkins. Halo is the only platform purpose-built for broadly automated, portable, scalable, on-demand security and compliance.

More information about CloudPassage Halo can be found here.

About CloudPassage

CloudPassage® Halo® is the world's leading automated security platform that provides instant visibility and continuous protection for servers in any combination of data centers, private clouds and public clouds. The Halo platform is delivered as a service, so it deploys in minutes and scales on-demand. Halo uses minimal system resources; so layered security can be deployed where it counts, right at every workload -- servers, instances and containers. CloudPassage was recently awarded three patents that extend the scope of its original, agent-based, agile security model, making it the first company to obtain a U.S. patent for universal cloud infrastructure security. Leading enterprises like Citrix, Salesforce.com and Adobe use CloudPassage today to enhance their security and compliance posture, while at the same time enabling business agility. Headquartered in San Francisco, CloudPassage is backed by Benchmark Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, Tenaya Capital, Shasta Ventures, Musea Ventures and other leading investors. For more information, visit www.cloudpassage.com.

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