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Cloud Complexity: Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Architectures Make Security Harder
Cloud computing may be easy to get started with, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that the security of the cloud infrastructure is also easy. A major vulnerability of businesses is incorrectly configured security settings. And that difficulty is compounded by the fact that 85 percent of businesses have a multicloud environment. One-third of businesses now have 50 or more cloud-based applications that need to be managed.
David Linthicum, Chief Cloud Strategy Officer at Deloitte Consulting, writes that “cloud complexity has been identified during the past few years as an issue that arises with multicloud deployments. Most enterprises are aware of operational problems that arise when dealing with two or more IaaS cloud providers at the same time, but most have not yet linked complexity with security issues… Cloud complexity is the number one reason enterprises experience failures with cloud.”
Multicloud complexity happens because the cloud services differ in their operation and approaches to security.
Abhijit Chakravorty, Cloud Security Competency Leader at IBM, said that “the cloud holds enormous potential for business efficiency and innovation, but also can create a ‘wild west’ of broader and more distributed environments for organizations to manage and secure. When done right, cloud can make security scalable and more adaptable – but first, organizations need to let go of legacy assumptions and pivot to new security approaches designed specifically for this new frontier of technology, leveraging automation wherever possible.”
