Expel commissioned CSA to develop a survey and report to understand better the industry’s knowledge, attitudes, and opinions regarding security’s relationship to innovation, outcomes of security-enabled innovation, and trends in cloud use. The survey was conducted online by CSA in May of 2023 and received 1018 responses from IT and security professionals from organizations of various sizes and locations.The primary objectives of the survey were to gain a deeper understanding of several critical areas of innovation and cloud use trends.The current views of security professionals on their organization’s relationship with security and innovationIdentify actual and predicted outcomes from security-enabled innovationExamine cloud use trends such as the use of multi-cloud environments, containers, and movement between cloud and on-prem.