CAMPBELL, Calif., June 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ --
Highlights:
- Of respondents using the cloud today, 40 percent of their
infrastructure is already in the public cloud, and they expect to
increase this to almost 70 percent within five years.
- 99 percent said that their organizations have seen benefits as
a result of moving to the public cloud.
- 91 percent reported they had concerns over their use of public
cloud, with 54 percent stating that cyberattacks are their chief
concern.
- 71 percent felt the cloud provider was responsible for customer
data in the public cloud, and 66 percent felt the cloud provider
was responsible for their applications in the public cloud.
Barracuda Networks, Inc. (NYSE: CUDA), a leading provider of
cloud-enabled security and data protection solutions, today
announced key findings from a new global research report,
"Unlocking the Benefits of Public Cloud." Commissioned by Barracuda
and conducted by Vanson Bourne, the
research surveyed 1,300 IT decision makers from organizations using
public cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) from the Americas,
Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and from Asia Pacific (APAC). The report outlines the
respondents' use of public cloud, benefits of public cloud,
challenges with public cloud, and public cloud security.
"This report highlights the ongoing increase in public cloud use
globally, with many organizations seeing substantial process and
financial benefits. However, there are still a significant number
of organizations that are not clear on the shared security model
and the implication to their data and applications," said Senior
Vice President and General Manager of Security at Barracuda,
Hatem Naguib. The challenges in
migrating legacy security appliances and architectures require
having the right infrastructure for securing hybrid cloud
solutions. Organizations need to select cloud ready security
solutions that are designed for the new architectures and
capabilities enabled by public and hybrid cloud
adoption."
Background Public Cloud Use
Respondents' use of public
cloud is on the rise, as is their sophistication in working within
the cloud. On average, organizations have nearly 40 percent of
their infrastructure in the public cloud today, with the
expectation to increase this to 70 percent over the next five
years. Four in 10 reported that their organization relied on public
cloud deployments to expand their services, often replicating those
over multiple regions, while 30 percent said they only migrated
selected services to the cloud and kept the balance on premises.
Overall, the survey found that organizations are growing more
comfortable with hybrid environments that deploy a range of public
cloud services along with more traditional on-premises
infrastructure.
Public Cloud Benefits
Nearly all the respondents (99
percent) said that their organization has seen benefits as a result
of moving to the public cloud, including greater scalability and
reduced IT expenditures. The survey found, on average, that
organizations didn't use a single cloud provider for everything,
and cited a number of reasons for this: Top of mind was that
different providers had different strengths (63 percent), followed
by the view that this increased security (51 percent) and helped
keep costs down (42 percent).
Public Cloud Challenges
Security remains to be the
biggest challenge when it comes to using the public cloud – 71
percent felt that security concerns restricted their ability to
migrate workloads to the public cloud. Nine in 10 (91 percent) of
organizations reported they worried about their use of public
cloud, with cyberattacks being the chief concern at 54 percent.
Phishing (50 percent), DDoS (47 percent), APTs (45 percent),
and ransomware (41 percent) were the main threats that most
concerned them. Over half (56 percent) had experienced at least one
cyberattack, and found that the average number of attacks an
organization had seen were five. The challenge with security was
further heightened with the information organizations are storing
in public clouds: Over 50 percent of all organizations store some
type of personal data (personnel records, medical records, etc.) in
the public cloud, and nearly the same percent (55 percent) store
customer order history.
Public Cloud Security
The Shared Responsibility
Security Model – wherein cloud providers are responsible for the
security of the cloud, while organizations using the cloud
are responsible for the security of what they put in the
cloud – is not new, and 72 percent felt they fully understood their
cloud security responsibilities. This was in stark contrast to what
organizations believed their cloud provider was responsible to
provide for security – 71 percent felt the cloud provider was
responsible for customer data in the public cloud, and 66 percent
for applications in the public cloud. Additionally, 52 percent were
confident that their move to the cloud was secure, with three in
five – 62 percent – responding that they had included additional
security solutions in their public cloud infrastructure.
Recommendations
- Organizations often end up with multiple cloud providers, as
well as having an on-premises (legacy) infrastructure. This can
have implications on complexity and overall costs; it's further
compounded when third-party solutions such as security are added to
the mix. Therefore, customers are advised to look for third parties
who support a wide range of ecosystems with the same or similar
solutions.
- As customers weigh licensing options – by usage, per hour,
unlimited, etc. – we see customers beginning to understand how they
can leverage different ones to gain greater cost controls. This
becomes more important when third-party vendors are added to the
mix. Customers value when third parties offer equivalent licensing
options to how the customer is licensing their public cloud
infrastructure.
- Companies deploying the most common security routine – routing
branch locations' traffic through a central security solution –
generally find these solutions lack scale and cost benefits as
their cloud leverage increases. Companies that look at distributed
security solutions, such as next-generation firewalls and web
application firewalls, closer to the point of access reduce those
issues, but find new ones in managing multiple devices. Therefore,
look for vendors who can provide a common management scheme –
either in their products or using public cloud security
infrastructures – to simplify managing and monitoring ongoing
security.
Barracuda solutions are cloud ready and designed for hybrid
deployments. Barracuda on-premises and cloud solutions can work
seamlessly together to protect customers' data and applications
regardless of where they reside. For more information, please visit
cuda.co/cloudready.
Resources
To view the full report, please visit:
cuda.co/wpunlocking
Barracuda Blog – Barracuda Cloud Research Confirms Growing Usage
and Remaining Security Concerns: cuda.co/19259
Infographic – Public Cloud Usage by the
Numbers: cuda.co/19261
Solutions Brief – Public Clouds Go Mainstream:
cuda.co/tvcloudms
About Barracuda Networks, Inc. (NYSE:
CUDA)
Barracuda (NYSE: CUDA) simplifies IT with
cloud-enabled solutions that empower customers to protect their
networks, applications and data, regardless of where they reside.
These powerful, easy-to-use and affordable solutions are trusted by
more than 150,000 organizations worldwide and are delivered in
appliance, virtual appliance, cloud and hybrid deployment
configurations. Barracuda's customer-centric business model focuses
on delivering high-value, subscription-based IT solutions that
provide end-to-end network and data protection. For additional
information, please visit barracuda.com.
Barracuda Networks, Barracuda, and the Barracuda
Networks logo are registered trademarks of Barracuda
Networks, Inc. in the US and other
countries.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release
contains forward-looking statements, including statements regarding
the potential benefits, performance, and functionality of Barracuda
security products. You should not place undue reliance on these
forward-looking statements because they involve known and unknown
risks, uncertainties and other factors that are, in some cases,
beyond the Company's control and that could cause the Company's
results to differ materially from those expressed or implied by
such forward-looking statements. Factors that could materially
affect the Company's business and financial results include, but
are not limited to customer response to the Company's products, as
well as those factors set forth in the Company's filings with
the Securities and Exchange Commission. The Company expressly
disclaims any intent or obligation to update the forward-looking
information to reflect events that occur or circumstances that
exist after the date of this press release.
Contacts
Jonelle
Elam
Barracuda Networks,
Inc.
408-342-6415
jelam@barracuda.com
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