Symantec Research Finds More Than Half of Enterprises Believe Security Can’t Keep Up With Cloud Adoption

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC), the world’s leading cyber security company, today announced new research revealing enterprises are struggling to keep up with the rapid expansion of cloud within their businesses. Surveying 1,250 security decision makers across the globe, Symantec’s Cloud Security Threat Report (CSTR) uncovered insights on the shifting cloud security landscape, finding enterprises have reached a tipping point: more than half (53%) of all enterprise compute workload has been migrated to the cloud. However, security practices are struggling to keep up – over half (54%) of enterprises indicate their organization's cloud security maturity is not able to keep up with the rapid expansion of cloud apps.