Your Data, Your Responsibility: Securing Your Organization’s Future in the Cloud

Your Data, Your Responsibility: Securing Your Organization’s Future in the Cloud
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Tue, 05/20/2025 – 04:37

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Cloud adoption has fundamentally changed the way businesses operate, offering scalability, agility, and cost efficiencies that were unimaginable just a decade ago. But with this shift comes a necessary conversation: the cloud can also introduce complex security risks without the right care and practices in place.

Think sensitive and regulated data, intellectual property (IP), or code for your next winning product. When it comes to the future of your organization, business leaders must ask themselves:

• How are we making sure our critical data and IP are completely protected in the cloud?
• Who has access to the keys and protocols which are designed to protect our sensitive information?
• Are we consistently managing and securing keys across different cloud environments?
• Are we simply taking a “good enough” approach to cloud security without considering real risks?

If these are not questions that are already being discussed with teams, they need to be.

The Complexity of Multi-Cloud Security

The Thales 2025 Data Threat Report highlights that entities must rethink their approach to data security due to structural and geopolitical changes. In the AI era, the data businesses collect, store, process and share takes center stage. Although data breach rates fell to 45% in 2025 from 56% in 2021, cloud and application security continue to be the greatest security concerns for security leaders.

Cyberattacks are also becoming more sophisticated and tenacious. According to the Thales 2024 Cloud Security Study, 44% of organizations reported experiencing a cloud data breach, with 14% encountering such incidents within the past year. Among these breaches, 31% were attributed to misconfiguration or human error. Organizations that are not taking proactive steps will realize it’s only a matter of time before they become part of that statistic.

Who is Really Responsible for Cloud Security?

Too many business leaders assume that cloud security is their Cloud Service Provider’s (CSP’s) total responsibility, which is a dangerous misconception. In realit

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