Research from Veritas Technologies shows how Kubernetes' siled approach is leaving organizations vulnerable to increased cyber threats, with specific concerns about ransomware attacks
Research commissioned by Veritas Technologies, a leader in multi-cloud data management, points to a lack of organizational control in deploying Kubernetes across global businesses, contributing to data protection gaps and increased vulnerability to cyber threats.
With 89% of organizations concerned about the threat of ransomware attacks in Kubernetes environments, it is expected that companies will take a more cautious approach to this adoption. However, Veritas research showed that the decision to deploy Kubernetes is being taken out of the hands of IT leadership.
The 1,100 senior international IT decision makers consulted for the survey revealed that Kubernetes adoption is being driven by different areas. CIOs and IT leadership teams are considered just one of the key stakeholders in 58% of organizations, with individual IT project teams (45%), boards and business leaders (40%), DevOps (36%), and even cloud providers ( 24% ).
“Adopting a new technology must be a decision aligned with a global technology strategy. When other stakeholders force the CIO's hand, it can often mean that supporting practices and technologies, such as security and data protection, are not yet in place. And where individual project teams or cloud providers move to a new technology just for their environments, it creates silos that are out of step with the enterprise as a whole.”, explains Gustavo Leite, vice president for Latin America at Veritas.
Survey respondents expressed serious concerns about the challenges of securing siled Kubernetes environments. Two in five IT decision makers believe this increases the likelihood of data loss from protection suites (42%). Participants also note that this has caused more complex and time-consuming data restoration processes (44%), increased time pressure managing multiple solutions (40%), and increased management burden (39%).
Balancing comprehensive benefits with comprehensive protection
With nine in ten organizations expecting to deploy Kubernetes somewhere in their business-critical IT infrastructure within the next three years, ensuring these environments are protected will be vital to avoiding the risks of threats from hackers attempting to carry out ransomware attacks. . This is especially important as 48% of the companies that have deployed Kubernetes today have already suffered a ransomware attack.
“Hackers are always looking for the weakest link in a company's data protection strategy. And breaking a cohesive strategy by deploying and securing siled Kubernetes environments is a simple way for companies to accidentally create one of those weak links. A strategic plan for Kubernetes deployment, with holistic oversight from IT leadership, allows data protection to be considered appropriate as part of the deployment. Enterprises are missing the simplest solution to the problem by not extending existing data protection options to their Kubernetes environments: Modern protection solutions can seamlessly extend from traditional workloads and data centers into cloud and Kubernetes environments, offering complete protection and simple management”, concludes Leite.
about the search
The study was conducted by Opinium Research between February 7 and 20, 2022 in 11 key markets across three regions – Americas (US and Brazil), Asia-Pacific and Japan (Australia, China, Japan, Singapore and South Korea) and EMEA (France, Germany, UAE and UK) – using questionnaires sent to 1,100 IT decision makers in organizations with more than 1,000 employees.
