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Why do organisations struggle to operate securely in the cloud?

Enterprises look to a digital cloud infrastructure to deliver scale, cost efficiencies and competitive advantage, but internal cloud security awareness and capabilities lag.

 

No matter where you are in your cloud adoption journey, it’s time to manage your risks appropriately.

 

Why our connected world requires collective resilience

Cloud security is a shared security responsibility model. Cloud security breaches are happening at an alarming rate, and many are the responsibility of the customer and not the cloud service provider.

Organisations must evolve their enterprise architecture and security programmes to include cloud-based infrastructure or risk becoming impacted by an increased attack surface in the cloud. This includes education and skills uplift of employees, as well as technology.

Fundamental cloud security issues our experts encounter

Misconfigurations

Misconfigurations

Inadequate change control or misconfiguring cloud or third-party tools can lead to potential security incidents/breaches or compromises

1.

Operations

Operations

Effective security monitoring across cloud services, assets and tools, including managing threats, incidents and patching

2.

Identity & Access

Identity v2

Need to maintain tight identity control across identity credentials, key management for accessing the cloud assets and data

3.

Compliance

Compliance

Extending traditional cyber controls and policies to the cloud environment to manage ongoing governance and risk management

4.

Data

Data

Need to go beyond traditional data security controls to protect cloud workloads, considering the privacy and regulatory implications

5.

Vulnerability Management

Vulnerability

Ongoing security testing for infrastructure systems, applications and APIs to ensure vulnerabilities are remediated on-time

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Components of an ideal cloud security programme

Strategy

Top-down drive to embed and adopt cloud

Architecture

Alignment with enterprise architecture

Business Process Alignment

Align with business leads and existing processes to enable digital transformation

Framework & Standards

Extend security standards across cloud assets

Transformation

Integrate tools and technology in the overall cloud transformation

Compliance

Monitoring the effectiveness of controls, including enforcement and reporting of industry-accepted compliance

Operations

Ongoing security operations to monitor and manage vulnerabilities

How can ISTARI help?

Our experts will meet you wherever you are on your cloud adoption journey. We help discern the gaps in your current capabilities to help align with your business goals of digital transformation. We then tailor strategy formulation and implementation based on your organisation’s specific needs.

Let ISTARI help