Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 53 | Page 25

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// TRENDING THALES REPORT SHOWS ORGANISATIONS STRUGGLE WITH SECURITY POST DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION A new report from Thales reveals how organisations embarking on Digital Transformation programmes are struggling to deal with the associated security challenges. According to the 2020 Thales Data Threat Report – Global Edition, with research and analysis by IDC, organisations reached a global cloud tipping point causing them to struggle with the security challenges of Digital Transformation (DX). Today, half (50%) of all corporate data is stored in the cloud and nearly half (48%) of that data is considered sensitive. With multicloud usage becoming the new norm for companies, all respondents said at least some of the sensitive data stored in the cloud is not encrypted and 49% globally indicated that they have experienced a breach. In addition to DX and multi-cloud complexities, the global study shows that quantum computing has skyrocketed as a major concern with 72% of organisations claiming it will affect their security and cryptographic operations in the next five years. “ HAVING THE RIGHT CLOUD SECURITY IN PLACE HAS NEVER BEEN MORE CRITICAL. www.intelligentcio.com INTELLIGENTCIO 25