Cyber Security

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. Fi...

The Essentials on Cloud Compliance and Compliance Reporting Awareness about network and cloud security , compliance, and compliance reporting has become vital as more organizations move to the cloud to improve business resilience and agility, shorten time-to-market, and cut costs. From $313 billion in 2020, global spending on cloud services has risen to $482 billion in 2022, and it is set to reach $1.25 trillion by 2028. Compliance in the cloud Protecting customer data and privacy are at the centre of lawmakers' attention worldwide. Many regulations, including HIPAA, PCI DSS, SOX or GDPR, are meant to be adhered to depending on the industry. When workflows, processes and systems align with these regulatory regimes, this translates to compliance. However, this compliance also extends to the cloud, so organizations must ensure that the data they store on their cloud infrastructure adheres to data protection and privacy laws. Compliance matters in the cloud because failure can lead to...