Cloud applications play a crucial role in our personal and professional activities. Every day, without even thinking about it, we access dozens of cloud apps, where we store all kinds of data from financial information to family pictures.
Netskope has coined the phrase “Cloud Data Sprawl” for this trend, and a few simple numbers summarise its extent:
- An organisation with 500-2,000 employees uses an average of 1,558 cloud applications per month
- 138 (9%) of these are used to upload, create, share or store data
- The number of cloud apps in use grows in parallel with the size of the enterprise; an organisation with 2,000-4,000 employees uses on average 2