The mass adoption of cloud environments has helped businesses transform their operations through scalability and cost efficiency, but it has also put additional strain on security professionals. Research shows almost two-thirds of security analysts say the size of the attack surface has increased in the past three years, driven by pandemic-triggered digital and cloud investments. Security professionals face an ever-growing ‘spiral of more’ that sees them analysing more security alerts, setting more rules, and working with more security tools. This all increases workload, and makes it harder to identify and respond quickly to security alerts and manage breaches.
