Many organizations have undergone sweeping technological and operational changes in the past 18 months, creating new conversations around how these new technologies and processes should be secured and who is tasked with protecting them.

This was the core of a keynote delivered by Maxine Holt, senior director of cybersecurity at Omdia, during the inaugural Omdia Analyst Summit at this year’s Black Hat USA. Holt pointed to data from Omdia’s latest ICT Enterprise Insights survey, which found 31.7% of organizations said cloud services adoption is “significantly more important” than it was before the pandemic.