The cloud has been an inevitable force in recent years, becoming an even more crucial part of work lives today. However, the accelerated move to the cloud has also exposed organizations to critical security threats and data breaches that need immediate attention. Also, the growth of cloud computing lacking a carefully planned, orderly fashion, has made it all the more harder to identify vulnerabilities and workload configurations that are out of compliance.
Cybersecurity leaders and Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) to that end are under constant pressure to develop cloud fluency-related skill sets. They are also posed with the mandate to maintain security consistency across their data centers and public cloud environments where their cloud applications are deployed.
The limited control and visibility over the increasing complexity associated with multi-cloud environments make it difficult for security teams to protect data adequately in accordance with corporate policy and regulatory requirements. Also, the different built-in security controls and tools across various environments are an obstruction to consistent protection.
Undoubtedly, companies are adopting defense solutions like cybersecurity mesh that provides a means of verifying identity, context, and policy adherence across all relevant environments. Using cybersecurity mesh architecture, businesses take a broader defensive approach to protect their hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure. It helps companies manage access to their data from a centralized security point and delivers centralized security policies with distributed enforcement.
Cybersecurity mesh has also become one of the building blocks of Zero-Trust architecture, which every organization is adopting. The Zero Trust security approach helps companies enhance their security around every device, user, and connection by enabling them to manage threats proactively. In essence, they can strategize a thorough approach to counter threats.
Cloud services continue to grow in the upcoming year as businesses focus on spending significant IT budgets on cloud-based services. To secure these cloud-based services, business leaders have to concentrate on multi-cloud security strategies, cloud-native tools, and cybersecurity mesh.
