Cloud
We've curated 218 cybersecurity statistics about Cloud to help you understand how threats like data breaches and misconfigurations are affecting cloud environments in 2025, along with best practices for securing your digital assets in the cloud.
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30% of teams take more than a full day to resolve an incident due to disjointed workflows between cloud and SOC teams.
97% of CISOs agree that hybrid infrastructure provides greater resilience and risk management capabilities than relying solely on cloud or on-premises environments.
53% of Defense Industrial Base members are currently using a cloud service provider to minimize their Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification scope.
14% of Defense Industrial Base members are considering using a cloud service provider for Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification compliance in the future.
70% of CEOs stated they arrived at their current cloud environment by accident rather than by design.
91% of organizations say their cloud infrastructure provides the flexibility to adapt to new regulations.
The cloud computing industry has grown into a more than $700 billion sector as of 2025.
75% of leaders express concern about the geopolitical risks of storing and managing data in global cloud environments.
Organizations have increased cloud spending by over 30% on average over the past year.
89% of leaders say cloud investments have made it easier to use AI.
84% of leaders intentionally use multiple clouds.
81% agree that their primary cloud provider’s native security and compliance capabilities exceed what their team could deliver independently.
51% said the public cloud was best positioned to meet regulations vs 41% that responded on-premises.
Around eight in ten organizations report at least one data breach in the past year, both in on-premises infrastructure (78%) or in the public cloud (79%).
59% of applications run in the cloud today, rising to 75% within the next year.
56% said the public cloud was best positioned to deliver security as opposed to 37% that chose on-premises and 7% that responded neither model.
46% of organizations cite cloud and SaaS data sprawl as a top challenge. ).
Over 40% of ransomware attacks in 2025 had a hybrid component.
61% of organizations experienced cloud infrastructure or platform-related cyber incidents in the past 12 months, according to the 2025 Security Operations Trends Report.
57% of organizations experienced cloud application or SaaS-related cyber incidents in the past 12 months, according to the 2025 Security Operations Trends Report.