Intelligent CIO Europe Issue 07 | Page 98

t cht lk (PAM), affect the adoption of NGTs, BeyondTrust – the leader in PAM – surveyed 612 IT professionals in 13 countries. The results are a wake-up call for anyone looking to leverage these NGTs. DevOps has reached mainstream; AI and IoT not far behind The survey found broad interest in NGTs, with the most common being digital transformation, DevOps and IoT. IT reports these NGTs are important for organisations, with 63% saying digital transformation will have a somewhat to extremely large impact on their organisation, followed by DevOps (50%), AI (42%) and IoT (40%). Significant movement towards the cloud The survey also found that cloud transformation is accelerating. Respondents 98 INTELLIGENTCIO indicate that, today, 62% of workloads are on-premises, with 15% in a public cloud, 11% in private clouds and 8% in SaaS applications. Over the next three years, that is projected to dramatically change: on- premises drops to 44%, public cloud jumps to 26%, private cloud increases to 15% and SaaS increases to 12%. One in five respondents experienced five or more breaches related to NGTs Security issues, as a result of NGTs, happen at an alarming rate. A total of 18% of respondents indicated they had a breach related to NGTs in the last 24 months that resulted in data loss, 20% experienced a breach that resulted in an outage and 25% saw breaches over that time period that triggered a compliance event. One in five survey respondents experienced five or more breaches. Too much privilege results in breaches The study shows that, more than half the time, these breaches occur due to trusted users doing inappropriate things for innocent reasons, with 13% of respondents indicating it happens ‘often’ or ‘all the time.’ In 18% of the cases, its trusted insiders going rogue and in 15% of the cases, its outsiders gaining privileged access to steal credentials. In each case, excessive privileges are to blame. There are real business costs that result from breaches. The top costs are lost productivity, loss of reputation, monetary damages and compliance penalties. Privileged Access Management can facilitate the move to NGTs Respondents overwhelmingly indicate that PAM-related capabilities can improve www.intelligentcio.com