Cybersecurity’s Top Needed Skill: Cloud Security

Cybersecurity’s Top Needed Skill: Cloud Security

The cloud today has become what Forrester calls “a turbocharged engine powering digital transformation around the world.” Digital transformation is propelling  worldwide cloud service market projected growth from $182.4B in 2018 to $331.2B in 2022. Yet the cybersecurity skills shortage threatens safe cloud adoption and cloud security is the number one technology area most impacted by the shortfall.


Because of this, many cybersecurity experts are finding themselves pushed by their employers to expand their expertise to the cloud.


That was certainly the case for Nanditha Rao, Information Security Senior Advisor and Olayinka “Olay” Ladeji, Senior Principal Program Manager, Cloud Operations. Demand for cloud security expertise drove both to achieve the Certified Cloud Security Professional (CCSP) certification, Rao in 2017 and Ladeji in 2016.


At the time, Rao was working for an IT platform provider, Ladeji for a management consulting firm. Rao’s employer and Ladeji’s clients had begun expressing interest in cloud adoption. Both needed to better understand cloud architecture and the risks it posed as well as learn best practices for mitigating these perils.


“My initial tendency would have been to fashion risk mitigation plans based on traditional computing models. But with cloud computing, I quickly realized I had to leave all my thinking behind if I wanted to provide appropriate guidance for our teams,” says Rao.


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