Sixty-five percent of organisations experienced a cloud-related security incident in the past year, from 61 percent, according to Check Point Software.
The cybersecurity platform revealed in its ‘2025 Cloud Security Report’ that only 9 percent detected the incident within the first hour, and a mere 6 percent managed to remediate it within that time frame, allowing intruders to remain undetected across cloud environments.
Cloud Adoption outpaces security readiness as 62 percent of organisations have adopted cloud edge technologies, while 57 percent use hybrid cloud, and 51 percent operate in multi-cloud environments. Hence, Legacy and perimeter-based defences cannot keep up with these distributed infrastructures.
“Security teams are chasing an ever-moving target,” said Paul Barbosa, VP of Cloud Security at Check Point Software Technologies. “As cloud environments grow more complex and AI-driven threats evolve, organisations can’t afford to be stuck with fragmented tools and legacy approaches. It’s time to shift toward unified, intelligent, and automated defenses designed for the realities of today’s decentralised world.
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Check Point recommended a shift toward decentralised, prevention-first cloud security strategies, advising organisations to consolidate their toolsets, adopt AI-powered threat detection, and deploy real-time telemetry to gain full visibility across edge, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.
The report revealed that application security still lags, as 61 percent still rely on outdated, signature-based Web Application Firewalls (WAFs), which are increasingly ineffective against sophisticated, AI-enhanced threats.
Deryck Mitchelson, Global chief information security officer (CISO) at Check Point Software Technologies, added, “With attackers moving in minutes and defenders responding in days, the gap between detection and remediation is becoming a danger zone.
“CISOs must consolidate fragmented tools into unified platforms, gain visibility into lateral movement, and prepare their teams and technologies to counter AI-driven threats, or risk ceding control of the cloud to increasingly sophisticated adversaries.”
