Managing Cloud Risks Gave Security Teams a Big Headache in 2024

Dark Reading’s 2024 Strategic Security Survey highlights mounting concerns over cloud security amid widespread multi-cloud adoption, with top worries including exploits against cloud providers (49.6%), cloud breaches (47.8%), and lack of visibility and policy enforcement (39.1%), compounded by shared-responsibility and incident-response ambiguities. Ransomware pressures intensified: 16% of organizations reported attacks in 2024 (up from 11% in 2023), significant financial impacts rose to 45%, and ransom payments declined to 20%, underscoring persistent visibility and control challenges in cloud environments.