The adoption of hybrid cloud environments driving business operations has become an ever-increasing trend for organizations. The hybrid cloud combines the best of both worlds, offering the flexibility of public cloud services and the security of private on-premises infrastructure. We also see an explosion of SaaS platforms and applications, such as Salesforce or Slack, where users input data, send and download files and access data stored with cloud providers.
However, with this fusion of cloud resources, the risk of data breaches and security vulnerabilities has also intensified. The 2023 Cost of a Data Breach Report found that 82% of data breaches involved data stored in cloud environments, with 38% spanning multiple types of environments. Cyber criminals know organizations’ most prized data is stored in the cloud, making this third-party infrastructure a perfect target.
Cloud environments are not static. It’s easy for us to spin up new cloud environments, whether that’s AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform or IBM Cloud. When data is stored across so many different environments and traversing across various networks, keeping track of where data resides, who has access to what and if sensitive information is exposed becomes challenging. In the wake of growing cyber threats as well as increasingly stringent regulatory mandates, it has become imperative for organizations to fortify their defenses with a robust security strategy, especially in the era of cloud infrastructure.
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