Building trust in cloud environments
2023 KPMG Cloud Transformation Survey
From service downtime to sensitive data loss, audit issues, and noncompliance, risks in cloud environments are broad and threaten to have serious impacts on business performance and reputation. Add to that unaddressed stakeholder concerns about cloud risks, cloud transformation programs tend to bog down before enterprises realize the full potential value that cloud can deliver. The result: Top management and line of business leaders may deprioritize larger scale cloud investments. Security, risk, and compliance owners may place limits on what data is moved to the cloud. Employees and customers may not take advantage of all the cloud-based tools and services available to them.
KPMG surveyed more than 300 senior-level cloud practitioners in the 2023 KPMG Cloud Transformation survey. Learn how your organization can take full advantage of the promise of cloud technologies by making investments to manage cloud risks across the enterprise and the transformation journey. Read about the highlights below and download the full point of view for details, key drivers, and actions leaders can take related to these findings.
Average annual issues due to cloud risks
Question: Approximately how many times has your organization experienced a business-critical application outage, data loss, or has been identified by internal auditors, external auditors, or governement regulators in the public cloud over the past year?
Cloud adoption and future trends
Companies are moving more data and systems to public cloud and are increasing the sensitivity of the data involved.
More business applications are moving to public clouds
Cloud risks
Enterprises face new and legacy risks along the cloud migration journey.
Today's cloud threat landscape is broad
Cloud management approaches
Early, hands-on cloud management leads to fewer incidents, with small impacts, at lower costs.
When stakeholder concerns about cloud risks are not addressed, cloud transformation programs tend to bog down before enterprises realize the full potential value that cloud can deliver.
Frameworks and standards can help set companies on the right path
Companies improve cloud risk confidence by leveraging industry standards
Companies that were most proactive about cloud security were 2x as likely to say their security is strong
Empowering people throughout the enterprise can be a key success factor
Enterprises with higher rates of cross-functional cooperation, employee training, and middle management engagement report greater preparedness and outcomes.
When it comes to cloud risk management, enterprises with higher rates of cross-functional cooperation, employee training, and middle manager engagement report greater preparedness and outcomes.
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