CLOUD ENTITLEMENTS  AND POSTURE  MANAGEMENT TRENDS

Research Objectives Organizations are moving applications to the cloud and embracing digital transformation strategies to speed development cycles and better serve employees, partners, and customers. However, the subsequent faster release cycles and broad internet exposure increases the number of potential security incidents caused by misconfigurations, including a high number of those that are identity-related. Security teams are looking for efficient ways to drive actions that reduce security risk, including trimming excessive access permissions and fixing coding issues that make them vulnerable to attack. One such approach involves leveraging cloud entitlement and security posture management solutions to protect applications. Effectively managing cloud entitlements is critical to fortifying overall cloud security posture. Organizations can reduce security risk and scale their teams to support cloud-native development with strong solutions in place to help them reduce their attack surface and efficiently remediate security issues. In order to gain further insights into these trends, TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) surveyed 383 IT and cybersecurity decision makers responsible for evaluating or purchasing cloud security technology products and services at midmarket (100 to 999 employees) and enterprise (1,000 or more employees) organizations in North America (US and Canada).