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Thales report reveals Australian businesses find cloud privacy and data protection more complex to manage than on-prem .

Over half of Australian businesses ( 53 %) believe cloud privacy and data protection is more challenging to manage than on-premises . Yet , according to the 2022 Thales Cloud Security Report conducted by 451 Research , part of S & P Global Market Intelligence , increasingly complex cloud environments are on the rise .

Globally , cloud adoption and notably multi-cloud adoption , continues to rise . There has been an expansion in the use of multiple IaaS providers , with almost three-quarters ( 72 %) of businesses using multiple IaaS providers , up from 57 % the year before . The use of multiple providers has almost doubled in the last year , with one in five ( 20 %) respondents using three or more providers .

16 % say their employees still use nothing other than passwords to access data stored in cloud or SaaS applications .

In Australia , a fifth ( 22 %) of businesses now use over 50 Software-as-a-Service ( SaaS ) applications , while one in 10 ( 10 %) uses over 100 . However , despite rapid growth in the prevalence and use of cloud services among businesses , research indicates many are still navigating how to protect the complicated environments they have created .

Security challenges of multi-cloud complexity

With increasing complexity comes an even greater need for robust cybersecurity , yet in the past 12

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