During the second quarter of 2020 — for the first time in history — customers worldwide spent more on public cloud systems than on investments in non-cloud IT systems. With more cloud spending than ever before, the battle for market share among the leading public cloud providers (PCPs) heated up. The same tactics major providers rely on to encourage cloud customer loyalty tend to amplify the cloud security challenges these customers face.
Furthermore, many customers want to avoid locking in to a single vendor. This way, they can maximize the well-known perks of moving computing out of their private data centers in the first place. It comes as no surprise that only a small fraction of today’s cloud environments are built within a single public cloud provider’s domain. Instead, 93% are multicloud landscapes, and most rely on hybrid strategies that mix public and private cloud elements as well as on-premise components.
What are the Major Cloud Security Challenges?
This means today’s defense teams are tasked with creating new tactics for tomorrow’s hybrid and multicloud world.
Cloud security challenges can come with both multi-vendor and hybrid cloud strategies. Cloud deployments make IT vastly more complex even as they reduce the demands of physical management. This is taxing for security teams, who frequently struggle to maintain insight in multicloud landscapes. The drive to avoid vendor lock-in can result in an avalanche of readings from various providers’ platforms and software-as-a-service (SaaS) apps. These can be stored in disparate, poorly-integrated data silos, which mak ..
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