More than half of Singaporean IT and security leaders fear their organisations would be crippled by a cloud breach. As such, cloud security will be a key priority for businesses in Singapore over the next year, according to Illumio’s Cloud Security Index: Redefine Cloud Security with Zero Trust Segmentation study.
In the event of a cloud breach, 26% of Singaporean IT and security leaders say it would be easy for an attacker to find weaknesses in their organisations’ environment and move laterally. This is because they have limited or no controls in place to limit network discovery or lateral movement or have a limited amount of preventative and detective controls.
Only 35% are confident they have excellent preventative controls in place, making it very difficult for attackers to find vulnerabilities.
“The goal of cyberattacks has shifted from monetising data to impacting business operations and, as a result, the cloud has become a prime target for attack. Yet, more than half of Singaporean businesses say they wouldn’t be able to operate in the event of a cloud breach, which is concerning,” says Andrew Kay, director of Systems Engineering APJ at Illumio.
He continues: “Organisations need to ensure that their infrastructure is attack-tolerant, particularly as cloud usage increases. Attackers can’t paralyse critical operations without spreading across a network first. So, breach containment and preventing lateral movement has to be the priority.”
The study also reveals that the gaping disconnect between security and developers remains. Nearly half (48%) of the respondents say their organisations need to improve collaboration between security and application developers.
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