According to 2024 Thales Cloud Security study by Thales, cloud resources are the biggest targets for cyberattacks in India.
The report stated that cloud security spending now tops all other security spending categories.
As per the report, in India, 46 per cent respondents reported that all corporate data stored in the cloud is sensitive and 37 per cent organisations have experienced a cloud data breach in India with 14 per cent having had one in the past year.
It mentioned that 35 per cent organisations in India recognise the importance of digital sovereignty initiatives as a means of futureproofing their cloud environments, and globally, nearly half organisations acknowledge that it is more difficult to manage compliance and privacy in the cloud versus on-premises.
Furthermore, it added that human error and misconfiguration continue to top the list of root causes of these breaches (34 per cent), followed by exploiting previously unknown vulnerabilities (32 per cent), exploiting known vulnerabilities (21 per cent) and failure to use multi-factor authentication (11 per cent).
The report is based on a survey of nearly 3,000 information technology (IT) and security professionals across 18 countries in 37 industries.
