{"id":93912,"date":"2023-12-06T15:35:45","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T15:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/?p=93912"},"modified":"2023-12-20T12:52:26","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T12:52:26","slug":"organisations-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia-lose-2-3m-a-year-to-cloud-breaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/2023\/12\/06\/organisations-in-uae-and-saudi-arabia-lose-2-3m-a-year-to-cloud-breaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Organisations in UAE and Saudi Arabia lose $2.3m a year to cloud breaches"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Current cloud security tools are not good enough: 100% are now storing sensitive data in the cloud, yet 70% respondents believe cloud security is lacking and poses a severe risk to their business operations.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inadequate cloud security practices are leaving organisations in the UAE and KSA susceptible to data breaches, according to new research from Illumio. <em>The Illumio Cloud Security Index<\/em> found that 54% of breaches in the UAE and KSA now originate in the cloud, costing organisations $2.3m USD annually. This is particularly concerning given that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Over three quarters (76%) of respondents are running high-value applications in the cloud.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>100% of respondents admit to storing sensitive data in the cloud.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>98% say a cloud breach would impact their operations, with nearly half (46%) admitting a cloud breach would make maintaining normal operations impossible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>70% of respondents believe that cloud security in their own company is inadequate and represents a major risk (higher than the global average (63%).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Fears about inadequate security practices are likely down to an inability to see and respond to risks in the cloud; 97% say they need better visibility of connectivity with third-party software. This lack of visibility is impacting organizations&#8217; ability to respond to attacks, with 97% saying they need to improve their reaction time to cloud breaches. 98% are also concerned that the connectivity between their cloud services and on-prem environments increases the likelihood of a breach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Respondents are also concerned about the consequences of attacks via the cloud. Service downtime is deemed to be the biggest risk in the UA (38%, a lot higher than the global average of 29%), demonstrating the criticality of the cloud for business. This was followed by a loss of productivity (35%), and lawsuits (33%, a lot higher than the global average of 21%). It is, therefore, no surprise that improving cloud security is a high priority for 89% of respondents in the coming year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zero Trust Segmentation (ZTS) is believed to be the solution with 89% believing it has the potential to significantly improve their own cloud security, yet only 33% use ZTS across both on-prem and in cloud environments, a lot lower than the global average (48 percent).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ashraf Daqqa, Regional Director for META at Illumio, said: \u201cWe\u2019re seeing rapid adoption of the cloud in the UAE and KSA, but as cloud adoption increases, so do the risks.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAs the attack surface becomes larger and more complex, it\u2019s critical that organisations have real-time visibility over their applications and workloads, as well as the ability to rapidly contain threats in the cloud. By introducing ZTS as a part of a proactive Zero Trust security strategy, organisations can significantly improve their cyber resilience and reduce the cost and impact of cloud breaches.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Current cloud security tools are not good enough: 100% are now storing sensitive data in the cloud, yet 70% respondents believe cloud security is lacking and poses a severe risk to their business operations. Inadequate cloud security practices are leaving organisations in the UAE and KSA susceptible to data breaches, according to new research from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":93913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[331,14804,78,791,13,185,79],"tags":[22,16810,1563,13556,790,277,184],"class_list":["post-93912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud","category-cybersecurity","category-regional-news-newsletter","category-ksa","category-top-stories","category-uae","category-used","tag-cloud","tag-cloud-breaches","tag-cloud-security","tag-illumio","tag-ksa","tag-saudi-arabia","tag-uae"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93912"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94377,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93912\/revisions\/94377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}