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We've curated 219 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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78% of provisions are in the public cloud, 61% are in virtualized clusters, 48% are in private cloud, and 32% are at the edge.
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.
14% of Defense Industrial Base members are considering using a cloud service provider for Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification compliance in the future.
53% of Defense Industrial Base members are currently using a cloud service provider to minimize their Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification scope.
75% of leaders express concern about the geopolitical risks of storing and managing data in global cloud environments.
The cloud computing industry has grown into a more than $700 billion sector as of 2025.
70% of CEOs stated they arrived at their current cloud environment by accident rather than by design.
84% of leaders intentionally use multiple clouds.
89% of leaders say cloud investments have made it easier to use AI.
Organizations have increased cloud spending by over 30% on average over the past year.
91% of organizations say their cloud infrastructure provides the flexibility to adapt to new regulations.
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.
51% said the public cloud was best positioned to meet regulations vs 41% that responded on-premises.
81% agree that their primary cloud provider’s native security and compliance capabilities exceed what their team could deliver independently.
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%).
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.