With software security getting kicked in the teeth almost every day, it’s more important than ever that we take securing our programs and clouds

Palo Alto Networks on the State of Cloud Native Security

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2022-01-20 20:30:11

With software security getting kicked in the teeth almost every day, it’s more important than ever that we take securing our programs and clouds more seriously than ever. But before we can do that, we must know what’s insecure today. That’s where security company Palo Alto Networks (PANW) comes in with its latest Cloud Native Security Report.

The single biggest factor in the cloud and its security, though, was beyond the control of any technology company. According to PANW, the Covid-19 pandemic represents one of the most profound worldwide social and economic upheavals since World War II. The results were:

In terms of numbers, organizations expanded their use of clouds during the pandemic by more than 25% overall. In addition, today 69% of organizations host over half of their workloads in the cloud, up from just 31% in 2020. It really is a cloud IT world today.

Businesses also spent more on platform as a service (PaaS) and serverless. This probably came with their rapid transition to the cloud. At the same time, containers and containers as a service (CaaS) saw more moderate growth. This last part I found surprising. I would have guessed that containers, in no small part because of Kubernetes, would have taken up more funding.