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In this study, Forrester Consulting conducted an online survey of 100 US and
UK IT professionals at the director level and above who have workloads in the
public cloud and manage cloud security infrastructure.
Base: 100 US and UK IT professionals at the director level and above who
have workloads in the public cloud and manage cloud security infrastructure
*Base: 82 US and UK IT professionals at the director level and above who
work for companies that have their own SOC
Source: A study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Alert Logic,
June 2016
Evolve Your Security Operations Strategy To Account For Cloud
Increasing adoption of cloud and complex IT service delivery models present challenges and opportunities for security teams.
Increasing cloud adoption requires
adjustments in security operations strategy
Cloud adoption is changing security operations:
Increased investment
in security operations
Instituted new cloud security
policies and controls
Reevaluated security
operations and controls
across environments
44% 44% 41%
79%of IT professionals responsible for cloud
security infrastructure value access to security
experts for their security operations.
Companies building in-house SOCs face
challenges
Top three challenges with building an in-house security
operations center (SOC):*
IT professionals value expertise from
security partners
Reasons companies engage a security expert:
Threat intelligence
analysis
Public cloud security
Security operations
Network security
Data privacy and
compliance 76%
76%
77%
80%
83%
Benefits achieved through engaging security experts:
47% Greater security competency
42% Improved quality of protection
36% Improved regulatory compliance
35% Improved accuracy of decisions
35% Reduced cost/overhead
29% Enriched threat intelligence
Changed vulnerability
management and scanning
for hybrid environments
51% 49%
46% 34%
Identifying
multivector
attacks
High costsManaging
security content
