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The increasing importance of cloud security for enterprises
In this coming decade, digital transformation is set to increase across all industries. This necessitates a secure cloud-based IT system. To establish such a system, it is imperative to set up a robust cloud security strategy which is woven throughout the enterprise. Three key elements are necessary to build such a system; in-built security, a data-centric and automation-first framework, and a holistic approach.
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The business of the 2020s will, no doubt, live and breathe in the cloud. As newer digital technologies like AI, automation, 5G, and IoT permeate the digital ecosystem in which today’s business thrives, securing the unifying fabric of these technologies- that is, the cloud- has become synonymous with building value that lasts. Cloud security has become a question of business value, as much as that of justifying the costs associated with achieving it.
The risk and security landscape has been evolving at an exponentially rapid rate as businesses accelerate their cloud adoption strategies and mature digitally, in these five ways:
- As enterprises wade into hybrid multi-cloud environments, mapping the risk exposure of enterprise data at rest and in transit is becoming a high-complexity problem.
- As data-intensive technologies and high-speed networking technologies such as WiF-6 and 5G become a value proposition that drives competitive advantage, the velocity, variability and volume of data that drives solutions powered by AI and ML technologies are becoming subject to a variety of privacy and ethical concerns.
- The regulatory paradigm is catching up to the speed at which the technology landscape is evolving. Legislations in the EU and the Americas have enforced increasingly stringent environments such as the GDPR and the CCPA.
- The senior management remains at odds in organizations that struggle with adequate cloud security assurance.
- Lastly, security is often conceived from outdated business and technology approaches that seldom work in today’s digital business.
Businesses that want to forge a cloud security strategy for the next decade must abstract and address five key themes: the current technology ecosystem view, risks posed by the adoption of disruptive technologies (by adopters and attackers alike), the regulatory worldview of digital business, synergizing the senior management’s expectations from the cloud security spend and adoption of novel approaches that justify the business value of the security spend.
As business and digital gain synonymity, cloud security for the coming decade must be envisioned along the following lines; watertight operations through complete visibility; build operational security through the right measures; integrate security into development and deployment; adopt an extended enterprise worldview.
These goals can be achieved by bringing cloud security issues to the highest level (the boardroom), investing in business problems, budgeting with a tiered approach and monetizing, and combatting with intelligence at scale.
In the coming years, businesses will need to integrate their cloud security strategy into the larger business strategy, since the digital footprint of the digital business is bound to expand and diversify further. Therefore, optimizing and demonstrating the business value of the spend
on cloud security will become critical in maintaining the cost-competitiveness, flexibility, and scalability that cloud brings to enterprises today. It is time for senior leaders to spark the conversation and ease the discussion into the overarching business strategy to truly enmesh
the security, systems, and business view and build a responsible roadmap to end-user centricity.
