Cloud services serve core functions essential to all aspects of business operations, but getting cloud security right is still a challenge for many organizations, the 2019 Cloud Threat Report by Oracle and KPMG has shown.

The two companies have asked 450 cyber security and IT professionals from private and public-sector organizations in the US, Canada, UK, Australia and Singapore about the problems surrounding cloud adoption and use in their environments.

While 73 percent of them feel the public cloud is more secure than what they can deliver in their own data center, there are still many sore points that negatively impact their organization’s security posture: