In 2020, many organizations quickly adopted cloud technologies to support the sudden shift to remote work. But how has this impacted perceptions around cloud security? According to the annual Netwrix Cloud Data Security Report, which surveyed 937 IT professionals worldwide, confidence in cloud security is diminishing. In fact, only 46% of respondents said they store non-sensitive data in the cloud, compared to 57% in 2019, and those storing customer data in the cloud dropped from 50% to 44%.
What’s even worse, 62% of organizations reported they will be removing sensitive data from the cloud, or have already done so, in order to improve data security. This number is up from 48% in 2019.