Rise in cloud adoption necessitates relook at security infrastructure

In the past year, a staggering 88% of Indian organisations suffered a business-impacting cyberattack, with 56% of respondents indicating the attacks targeted remote workers

With the pandemic rushing organisations to accelerate their move to cloud infrastructure and with hybrid workforce now becoming a reality, security experts are advising organisations to relook their cloud security infrastructure.

This becomes crucial as businesses continue to move their applications to the cloud, the threat of cyber criminals also continues. Since the outbreak of the global Covid-19 pandemic, the risk of cyberattacks has greatly expanded at the digital edge. Cybercrime costs the world economy more than $1 trillion with the average cost to organisations estimated to be more than half a million dollars per incident. 

According to a study