* Respondents represent a variety of industries, the largest being financial services (18%). 64% of respondents are from organizations with a global headcount of more than 1,000 employees.
Essential and Very important responses combined.
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Importance of features to control and secure cloud resources in United States 2020
In 2020, 51 percent of respondents from the United States indicated that email messages presented the greatest security risk to their organization when stored in the cloud. Employee records took the second place.
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