In public cloud hosting, Microsoft Azure was being used by 65% of the respondents, closely followed by AWS at 64%, and a modest suit by google cloud platform (GCP) at 33%.
Among the organizations using containers, Azure and AWS Kubernetes were the most popular choices (both at 55%), followed by docker (47%), RedHat OpenShift (26%), and VMWare Tanzu (23%).
Unsecured file upload is a big concern
The rise of containers has inevitably led to the rise in applications using storage services, with 94% of respondents reporting their web applications connect file uploads to other services.
Seventy-five percent of the organizations use part of these other storage services like cloud storage, with another 54% using enterprise on-premises storage, and 37% storage made through managed file transfers.
“File-based malware can slip past other defenses, it’s critical to catch and stop these attacks before they enter your networks and cause harm,” said the study report.
Data breaches were found to be the number one (73%) concern from unsecured file upload, with reputational damage (67%), loss in business or revenue (58%), and denial of service/infrastructure (54%) following close behind. “Seventy-eight percent of respondents are concerned about malware attacks from file uploads”, the report added.
