1、2State of Cloud Security Report 2025Table of ContentsExecutive Summary.3Highlights of the 2025 Survey Findings.4Introduction .6The Cloud Footprint .7Code Ships Fast,and Velocity Runs with Maturity .8Half the Compute Already Lives Here .8Public Cloud Is the Default,Even for Sensitive Work.9Multicloud

2、 from Day One.10Architecture:Hybrid by Design .10Application Security.11AI Coding Is Taking Over .11Shifting Left Has Been a Challenge .11Many Security Issues Still Reach Production.12Remediating in Production Is Not a Winning Strategy.12Data Security .13Complexity Drives Data Risk.13Manual Discover

3、y Marks a Broken Baseline.14Posture Leads as the First Line of Defense.15How Data Walks Out the Door .15Incident Response .17Escalating Incidents Define the Threat Landscape .17Detection and Containment Keep Pace,Resolution Falls Behind.18AI in the Cloud .20AI Security Starts with the Stack .20Cloud

4、 Security Strategy .23Recommendations for Securing the Cloud .24Optimize Pre-Deploy Security Gates .24Reduce Incident Response Fragmentation.24Fortify Identity and Permissions Management .25Leverage AI Security for Proactive Defense.25Improve Automation and Remediation Cycles.25Extend Cloud Security

5、 Operations into the SOC.25How Palo Alto Networks Helps .26Methodology .273State of Cloud Security Report 2025Were witnessing an evolution of cyberattack methods,a wholesale transformation in how adversaries operate.The Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 research team,a leader in threat intelligence,inciden

6、t response,and proactive services,has documented the shifting threat landscape.The daily cyberattacks weve seen have surged from as much as 2.3 million to up to nearly 9 million in the span of a year,an almost threefold increase driven by attackers adoption of AI tools.But the volume tells only part