As public cloud adoption continues to grow year after year, we see more and more enterprises realizing the strategic advantage the cloud can provide to help deliver new and innovative products quicker, roll out new features with ease, and reach new customers. But along with those advantages comes a new level of complexity and risk that organizations need to account for.
Rapid7's recently released 2021 Cloud Misconfigurations Report revealed that there were 121 publicly reported data exposure events last year that were the result of cloud misconfigurations.
One critical part of preventing these misconfigurations is the strategic, gradual adoption of automated notification and remediation workflows.
The benefits of automation in cloud security
Automation in the cloud is the implementation of tools that take away the responsibility of security from the user and make it automated. These tools can catch and fix misconfigurations before you even realize they were ever there.
Some of the benefits these tools can bring include:
Data breach protection: Despite increased regulations, data breaches continue to grow. Most of these breaches happen when organizations make inadequate or inappropriate investments in cloud security. Now more than ever, companies are under increasing pressure to make appropriate investments to protect customer data as they scale and expand their cloud footprint.Threat protection: When using cloud services, it's common to be overwhelmed with the large volume of threat signals you receive from a wide variety of sources. Without being able to decipher the signals from noise, it's difficult to identify true risk and act on it in a timely fashion.To deliver ..
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