The COVID-19 pandemic offered the cloud an unexpected boost, as it proved to be the most important enabler for business continuity, bringing a slew of solutions to help businesses weather the storms of 2020. Remote access, security, resilience, and cost were among the maintenance-related cloud requirements that helped businesses stay afloat.
Organizations have been seen adopting the cloud to achieve progressive priorities like speed, scale, and capacity. In the new hybrid world, the cloud was employed to build new business models and deliver products and services to customers.
Enterprises’ effort to drive business has been hastened by the cloud’s omnipresent reach, as well as its collaboration and AI-led analytics capabilities.
As cloud usage grows, businesses will need to interact with external stakeholders such as partners and vendors who require access to cloud-hosted applications. As a result, the IT environment is extremely vulnerable to cyber-attacks.
The vulnerabilities of a cloud-first, boundary-less organization
In a cloud-based environment, cybersecurity architecture, operations, and compliance should be given more thought. Ineffective security controls result from enterprises’ failure to transfer standard security architecture from on-premises to the cloud.
Since many cloud attacks are opportunistic, there is a high risk of a security breach owing to misconfiguration and insufficient change control
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