Machine Learning and the Cloud Are Changing Security
Cloud adoption promises the benefit of increased flexibility and agility and significant cost savings, so migrating business-critical applications to the cloud is a growing priority for companies of all sizes. The Oracle and KPMG Cloud Threat Report 2020 (www.oracle.com/security/cloud-threat-report) found that “76 percentof businesses are now leveraging infrastructure as a service (IaaS), up from 65 percent in 2019.” The report further indicates that 29 percent of business-criticalapplications are being consumed as software as a service(SaaS) today and will grow to 38 percent over the next two years based on trending from 2018 to 2020.
Although many enterprises adopt new applications on a
regular basis, not all organizations have real-world
experience in securely adopting or using cloud services.
Migrating enterprises’ business-critical applications and
services to the cloud can have a much larger ramification
than any single software upgrade. Often, cloud adoption
is part of a companywide initiative that represents a new
paradigm for doing business.