{"id":49671,"date":"2026-07-22T20:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T18:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cloudmagazin.com\/?p=49671"},"modified":"2026-07-22T21:11:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T19:11:47","slug":"study-increased-cloud-budget-does-not-fill-the-security-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cloudmagazin.com\/en\/2026\/07\/22\/study-increased-cloud-budget-does-not-fill-the-security-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Increased Cloud Budget Does Not Fill the Security Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1,163 security managers, one finding: the cloud is becoming more complex faster than teams can secure it. The 2026 State of Cloud Security Report by Cybersecurity Insiders (with Fortinet as an industry partner) calls this the Complexity Gap-and delivers numbers that are reshaping budget discussions.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Key Takeaways<\/h2>\n<div style=\"background:#f8fbfd;border:1px solid rgba(11,183,253,0.28);border-radius:8px;padding:22px 26px;margin:16px 0 34px;box-shadow:0 1px 0 rgba(11,183,253,0.08),0 2px 8px rgba(0,0,0,0.03);\">\n<ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:20px;line-height:1.75;color:#1a2733;\">\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px;\"><strong>Complexity outpaces maturity.<\/strong> 88&nbsp;% operate hybrid or multi-cloud (up from 82&nbsp;% last year), 81&nbsp;% with two or more providers. Yet 59&nbsp;% still rate their cloud-security maturity as early\/developing.<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:10px;\"><strong>Tool sprawl is the top brake.<\/strong> 69&nbsp;% cite tool sprawl and visibility gaps as their biggest obstacle. 66&nbsp;% lack strong confidence in real-time detection and response.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Budget alone won\u2019t close the gap.<\/strong> 62&nbsp;% expect rising cloud-security budgets; on average they account for 34&nbsp;% of the IT-security budget, yet maturity still lags spending.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size:0.88em;color:#666;margin:20px 0 32px 0;border-top:1px solid #e5e5e5;border-bottom:1px solid #e5e5e5;padding:10px 0;\"><span style=\"color:#1a1a1a;font-weight:700;text-transform:uppercase;font-size:0.72em;letter-spacing:0.14em;margin-right:14px;\">Related:<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudmagazin.com\/en\/2026\/07\/16\/what-the-mittelstand-can-really-take-over-by-2026\/\" style=\"color:#333;text-decoration:underline;\">Flexera 2026: What SMEs Can Really Take On<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<span style=\"color:#ccc;\">\/<\/span>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Cloud Maturity Level SMEs Persuade Themselves They\u2019ve Achieved<\/p>\n<p>The study is based on an online survey of 1,163 IT and cybersecurity professionals conducted in late 2025-spanning industries from tech and finance to healthcare and the public sector, and roles from specialists to C-level. Published by Cybersecurity Insiders, Fortinet is the report\u2019s industry partner. It\u2019s vendor research with a robust sample size, not a lab benchmark. For decision-makers, what matters is less the brand on the cover than the patterns that remain consistent across chapters.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#f4f8fb;border-left:3px solid #0bb7fd;padding:16px 20px;margin:28px 0;border-radius:0 8px 8px 0;\">\n<p style=\"margin:0;color:#1a2733;line-height:1.65;\"><strong>What is the Cloud Complexity Gap?<\/strong> The Cloud Complexity Gap describes the structural distance between the pace of modern cloud environments and the ability of security teams to maintain real-time visibility, detection, and response. According to the 2026 State of Cloud Security Report, it arises from fragmented tools, scarce specialists, and attackers who scan faster with automation and AI than manual defenses can correlate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Three Amplifiers, One Operating Model<\/h2>\n<p>The report distills the gap into three reinforcing factors. First, fragmented defenses: tools grow with the cloud, often without shared telemetry. Teams manually correlate alerts across systems never designed to work together. 69&nbsp;% cite this as the top brake on effective cloud security.<\/p>\n<p>Second, understaffed teams: 74&nbsp;% report an active shortage of qualified security professionals, 77&nbsp;% express high concern about the industry-wide skills gap. Cloud roles demand expertise in infrastructure, identity, data, and apps simultaneously-precisely the mix that\u2019s hardest to fill. Third, adversaries operating at machine speed: automation and AI discover misconfigurations, permission paths, and exposed data faster than human queues can process them. 66&nbsp;% lack strong confidence in real-time detect-and-respond capabilities-slightly up from last year (64&nbsp;%).<\/p>\n<p>The operating model behind this is clearly multi-cloud. 88&nbsp;% operate hybrid or multi-cloud environments, 81&nbsp;% use at least two providers for critical workloads, and 29&nbsp;% rely on more than three. Each additional account, SaaS application, and non-human identity expands configurations and data paths. Infrastructure scales automatically-understanding the security posture often does not.<\/p>\n<div style=\"background:#004a59;border:1px solid rgba(11,183,253,0.4);border-radius:10px;padding:34px 26px;margin:36px 0;text-align:center;box-shadow:0 0 24px rgba(11,183,253,0.08);\">\n<div style=\"font-family:'SF Mono','Monaco','Consolas',monospace;font-size:11px;color:#0bb7fd;letter-spacing:0.14em;text-transform:uppercase;margin-bottom:10px;\">\/\/ Metric<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size:48px;font-weight:700;color:#fff;letter-spacing:-0.03em;line-height:1;\">69&nbsp;%<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size:14px;color:rgba(255,255,255,0.85);margin:12px auto 0;max-width:460px;line-height:1.5;\">cite tool sprawl and visibility gaps as the biggest obstacle to effective cloud security-outpacing traditional point controls.<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size:12px;color:#0bb7fd;margin-top:12px;\">\/\/ Source: 2026 State of Cloud Security Report, Cybersecurity Insiders \/ Fortinet, n=1,163<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Where Risk Resides \u2013 and What the Numbers Mean for Architecture<\/h2>\n<p>The concentration of risk is hardly surprising-and that\u2019s precisely why it demands action. Identity and access lead the way at 77&nbsp;%, followed by misconfigured cloud services (70&nbsp;%) and data exposure (66&nbsp;%). Workload exploits and supply-chain attacks rank further down the list. The everyday path to compromise runs through permissions, configurations, and data.<\/p>\n<p>This is where the exposure chain forms: a misconfiguration opens a resource, an overprivileged identity takes the next step, and sensitive data becomes the target. Posture, identity, and data tools each cover their own segment. Seventy-seven percent prioritize identity-and yet the shared context across the chain is often missing. Attackers automate exactly this correlation.<\/p>\n<div style=\"display:grid;grid-template-columns:repeat(auto-fit,minmax(280px,1fr));gap:16px;margin:28px 0;\">\n<div style=\"background:#f7fbf9;border:1px solid rgba(45,122,62,0.22);border-radius:8px;padding:20px 22px;box-shadow:0 2px 8px rgba(0,0,0,0.03);\">\n<div style=\"font-family:'SF Mono','Monaco','Consolas',monospace;font-size:11px;color:#1a1a1a;letter-spacing:0.14em;text-transform:uppercase;margin-bottom:12px;\">\/\/ carries<\/div>\n<ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:18px;color:#1a2733;line-height:1.6;font-size:0.95em;\">\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:7px;\">Clear priorities among respondents: identity, configuration, data-architectural focus over tool shopping<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:7px;\">64&nbsp;% would choose a single-vendor platform from scratch across network, cloud, and app layers<\/li>\n<li>Success metrics shift to outcomes: fewer misconfigurations, less overprivilege, less alert noise<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<div style=\"background:#fbf8f6;border:1px solid rgba(181,83,42,0.22);border-radius:8px;padding:20px 22px;box-shadow:0 2px 8px rgba(0,0,0,0.03);\">\n<div style=\"font-family:'SF Mono','Monaco','Consolas',monospace;font-size:11px;color:#1a1a1a;letter-spacing:0.14em;text-transform:uppercase;margin-bottom:12px;\">\/\/ open<\/div>\n<ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:18px;color:#1a2733;line-height:1.6;font-size:0.95em;\">\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:7px;\">Only 11&nbsp;% report autonomous remediation-automation often stops at the alert<\/li>\n<li style=\"margin-bottom:7px;\">Only 18&nbsp;% have AI-driven detection fully operational; 32&nbsp;% remain in pilot phase<\/li>\n<li>Reported figures should always be mirrored against your own inventory and maturity posture<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The automation gap is the silent multiplier. Thirty-seven percent describe automation as largely alert-focused: they detect yes, but fix manually. Only 11&nbsp;% report autonomous remediation without humans in the loop. Meanwhile, many experiment with AI in cloud defense, yet only 18&nbsp;% say AI detection is fully operational across their cloud environments; 32&nbsp;% remain in pilot mode. Attackers don\u2019t need this level of maturity-they already scan, map, and prioritize at machine speed.<\/p>\n<h2>What Cloud Teams Across DACH Can Take Away<\/h2>\n<p>First: spend is not maturity. When 62&nbsp;% increase budgets and 59&nbsp;% still remain in early stages, the bottleneck lies in integration and operating model. Every new point tool without shared context adds operational overhead the team ultimately pays for.<\/p>\n<p>Second: platform consolidation is both a survey signal and an operational priority. Sixty-four percent would choose a single-vendor platform \u201cfrom scratch\u201d across network, cloud, and application security; only 27&nbsp;% would stick with pure best-of-breed without shared governance. Buyers prioritize coverage and depth (79&nbsp;%), integration and orchestration (72&nbsp;%), and automation and compliance (68&nbsp;%) over pure usability or price.<\/p>\n<p>Third: outcome metrics replace tool counting. Eighty-one percent prioritize security outcomes (fewer misconfigurations, less overprivilege), 76&nbsp;% operational efficiency (faster detection, less noise), 66&nbsp;% integration and automation, and 62&nbsp;% continuous compliance. For platform and security leads, this means tying roadmaps to exposure reduction and MTTD\/MTTR-not to the number of modules purchased.<\/p>\n<p>Fourth: the complexity gap is an architecture and identity issue before it\u2019s a pure SOC ticket. Teams running multi-cloud need a unified view of permissions, configuration drift, and data paths-or every new AI initiative becomes an additional attack-surface multiplier on an already fragmented foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The report doesn\u2019t provide a DACH-only snapshot or hands-on benchmarks per hyperscaler. It does deliver a robust sequence: first context across identity-config-data, then automation you can trust, then AI-driven detection built on that foundation. Reverse the order and you buy a sense of speed while keeping the gap wide open.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"padding-top:64px;margin-bottom:20px;\">Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2>\n<details>\n<summary><strong>Who is behind the 2026 Cloud Security Report?<\/strong><\/summary>\n<p style=\"margin:8px 0 4px 24px;color:#555;line-height:1.6;\">Conducted and published by Cybersecurity Insiders, with Fortinet as an industry partner. The findings are based on an online survey of 1,163 IT and cybersecurity professionals conducted in late 2025 across industries and company sizes. It\u2019s industry research with an industry partner-the core metrics (multi-cloud, tool sprawl, identity) are internally consistent and useful for prioritization, but do not replace your own asset and maturity assessments.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><strong>What does the Complexity Gap mean for multi-cloud teams?<\/strong><\/summary>\n<p style=\"margin:8px 0 4px 24px;color:#555;line-height:1.6;\">More providers and SaaS offerings don\u2019t just expand the attack surface; they fracture visibility and policy. When telemetry and entitlement paths don\u2019t converge, alert volumes grow faster than remediation capacity. The gap is therefore primarily an integration and identity problem-pure SOC capacity alone won\u2019t close it.<\/p>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary><strong>Should companies switch to a single-vendor platform?<\/strong><\/summary>\n<p style=\"margin:8px 0 4px 24px;color:#555;line-height:1.6;\">64&nbsp;% of respondents would plan to do so in a greenfield scenario. In practice, this means shared context, unified policy, and less manual correlation-rather than a big-bang migration. 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