Five Elements of a Holistic Cloud Security Strategy
1. Visibility
Get a clear view of your entire cloud infrastructure in real-time so you can secure everything.
2. Exposure Management
Limit your exposure and reduce risk, while ensuring security teams are fully aligned.
3. Prevention Controls
Ensure you have the right security controls in place, and graduate to new ones if needed.
4. Active Detection
Actively detect a breach or incident in near real-time to swiftly respond and limit your blast radius.
5. Swift Response
Launch and test your response plan to organize recovery and minimize business disruption.
Cloud Security Requires a Holistic Approach
Securing the cloud requires entirely new strategies compared to on-premise systems, workloads and data. While cloud providers claim security is ‘built-in,’ you can rest assured that you assume the risk if your data is lost, corrupted or stolen… not them.
Security should be the ‘wrapper’ that encompasses every aspect of your cloud model, and today’s environment demands that you take a proactive, aggressive and holistic approach. That means ensuring you have protections such as encryption, data protection, and CASB to start. It also means bringing DevOps and security teams together to create shared cloud security metrics for an ‘all hands on deck,’ coordinated approach.
