Challenges in Securing the Cloud Environment

Businesses are moving to the cloud because of its resilience, scale and agility. These include improved customer satisfaction due to greater customer concern resolution and enabling businesses to scale up with the changing market environment.

While cloud migration offers the benefits of business agility for customers, the challenge is maintaining security. The fact is that you cannot apply the legacy approaches that you used for the on-premise environment to the cloud environment as that will not simply work.

Issues around cloud cyber security arise because the environments are misconfigured due to human error and because humans don't fully utilize the automation opportunities. According to a Gartner report, 99% of cloud security failures occur because of misconfigurations making it a top issue that should be addressed on a war footing. Other reasons for misconfigurations are skillset scarcity, fragmentation in the multi-cloud/hybrid cloud deployment, and inadequate visibility.

Firewalls have protected businesses' on-premise environments for years, which has proved both sufficient and successful. However, cloud cyber security needs more than efficient firewalls. Some issues surrounding it are buckets that are incorrectly secured, insecure ports, overly permissive networks, and the age-old problem of misconfigurations.

In contrast, in a hybrid cloud environment, usually, two different teams manage the security, with neither of them having complete knowledge of the entire flow between the hybrid cloud application components. Therefore, the two teams need to collaborate to prevent misconfigurations by ensuring the right contextual visibility of the end-to-end network.

With regards to hybrid cloud security, collaboration is the key. Currently, legacy workflows are being used by security teams to manage the on-premise traditional environment without participation in DevOps and CloudOps practices. In actuality, the security policy should be used as a test in the automation cycle, and the two teams should collaborate well. This can be made possible by allowing visibility in the public cloud, compliance with security guardrails that have been put in place, and ensuring that network and security operations have DevOps included at the seed stage.

Cybalt is instrumental in enabling businesses worldwide to secure their cloud environments and, thereby, their long-term growth prospects. The company offers cutting-edge cloud security services, backed by the combination of skilled and certified people, advanced solutions and proven processes to deliver the right outcome for its clients worldwide.

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