Shifting applications and infrastructure over to cloud computing services can make life easier in some ways, it doesn’t automatically mean you can give up all responsibility for

Cloud computing continues to grow at a fantastic rate, even though it’s been around for quite some time; the most recent data from tech analyst Gartner shows that the infrastructure as a service market grew more than 40% just last year and it noted that ‘cloud-native becomes the primary architecture for modern workloads.”

Then it’s perhaps no surprise that cloud security is the fastest growing segment of the security market, with spending jumping from $595 million in the US in 2020 to $841 million last year, largely because companies are discovering that it’s a more complicated topic than they realised.

Most businesses use multiple cloud services and cloud providers, a hybrid approach that can support granular security options where vital data is kept close (perhaps in a private cloud) while less sensitive applications run in a public cloud to take advantage of big tech’s economies of scale.

But the hybrid model also introduces new complications, as every provider will have a slightly different set of security models that cloud customers will need to understand and manage.

That takes time and (often elusive) expertise across multiple cloud vendors systems. And it’s also a dynamic environment; applications and data are often switched between on- and off-premise and between cloud services, all of which are opportunities for errors and data leaks.

June 14, 2022

By Steve Ranger

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