We are thrilled to announce this quarter’s Netskope Cloud Report. Since the Netskope Active Platform looks across all enterprise cloud apps and normalizes activities and content, it’s a great way to find out how cloud apps are being used, what people are actually doing in them, what activities are constituting policy violations, and in what categories, and which apps are experiencing violations of data loss prevention policies.
A few key themes I want to bring your attention to. First off, cloud app growth continues its upward march, with now 508 apps per enterprise, on average. What’s different is that this is rapidly becoming not that big of a surprise. IT organizations are becoming more aware of the issue of shadow IT. They are now beginning to turn their attention to what people are doing in apps.
That brings me to my next theme, which is sharing. One of the key attributes of cloud apps is that they enable data sharing like nobody’s business. You can share anything in the cloud. A file, a link, a video. Build a report? Share it. Look up a customer record? Share it. Data is flying around like never before. It’s very cool, but also a little risky. What if it flies outside of the company? Someone wants to share a report with a contractor or a partner. Or even with their manager, but fat-fingers the name and shares it with someone they didn’t intend. Some interesting stats from the report around sharing: First, for every 1 upload in cloud storage, there are 3 shares. Kinda shocking! Second, 20 percent of the apps we track enable sharing. And that’s not just cloud storage. Third, 49 of the 55 categories we track have apps that enable shar