New research conducted by IDG Connect, on behalf of F5, collates the views of 50 IT decision makers in large organisations across Australia and Singapore. This infographic investigates the state of current security practices in the hybrid cloud and looks at where things are likely to head by 2016.

1. New research conducted by IDG Connect, on behalf of F5, collates the
views of 50 IT decision makers in large organisations across Australia
and Singapore. This infographic investigates the state of current
security practices in the hybrid cloud and looks at where things are
likely to head by 2016.
The professionals we surveyed felt that passwords will
become slightly more important in SaaS related security
issues in future.
Current In Two Years
Passwords and SaaS Security Now and in 2016
When we asked IT decision
makers to list all the
identity management
challenges they faced,
password management
emerged as the most
frequently mentioned
issue.
Password Management
Malware and Advanced Threat Protection
Application Security
Data Leakage Monitoring and Prevention
Managing Access Across Onsite and
External Cloud Applications
Security and System Event Monitoring,
Logging and Notification
Device Visability
Network Resource Access Control
Sensitive Resource Access Control
Rogue Application Control
87%
58%
58%
54%
52%
46%
42%
42%
40%
40%
Data Leakage Monitoring And
Prevention
Application Security
Managing Access Across Onsite And
External Cloud Applications
Security And System Event Monitoring,
Logging And Notification
At present passwords are the most common form of security for
cloud services but few IT decision makers believe this will be the
case by 2016. In future professionals think multifactor
authentication will prove to be the most popular form of security.
A survey of 50 senior IT decision makers in Singapore and
Australia, conducted by IDG Connect on behalf F5 Networks.
This infographic was produced by IDG Connect.
Yet when we asked IT decision makers to list the single most
important identity management challenge they faced, data
leakage monitoring and prevention proved to be their biggest
problem.
19%
17%
15%
10%
8%
Identity Management Challenges in the Hybrid Cloud
Malware And Advanced Threat
Protection
Top 5 Identity Management Challenges in the Hybrid Cloud
Methods For Securing Access To Cloud Services
Password Secure Form of
Identification
Multifactor
Authentication
Single
Sign On
(SSO)
Random
Number
Generators
Biometrics Token
2014: all methods for securing
access to cloud services
(multiple choices)
2016: top method for securing
access to cloud services
(single choice)
36% 40%
Security in the
Hybrid Cloud
Now and in 2016
94%
50%
35%40%44%
15% 17% 21%
12% 10% 19% 8%
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52%
40%