As cloud adoption and awareness continues to grow and expand, enterprises take benefits from multiple cloud platforms. According to a survey, almost 90% of enterprises have some sort of cloud services and many of them are already using multi-cloud environments. However, the rise of multi-cloud adoption has increased the cloud-related security incidents over the past years. The average organization generates over 3.2 billion events per month in the cloud of which over a third are actual threat events. Since 20% of all the files in the cloud contains sensitive data, it is important to switch up to multi-cloud security strategies to protect data integrity.
Let us understand some of the best practices that assure the security of the multi-cloud environment.
Determine features that support your multi-cloud strategy
Be wise while choosing the best multi-cloud structure for your business. It is important to know the requirement of your enterprise and share it with your provider. Various cloud providers offer extremely versatile capabilities and convincing values for IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS models. You must understand what features are critical to your business and which one possibly change the way your organization proceeds while sorting the vendors. Also, organizations need to rationalize different requirements other than new capabilities based on different features.
Consider Security Measurements while architecting your multi-cloud structure
While considering a successful cloud migration one must always use the cloud access security layer and a platform that unifies the company’s policy and threat identification approaches. Threat identification is another very challenging factor in the public, private and hybrid cloud environment. Stop considering your new cloud infrastructure as a separate environment. Using an identity management and aggregation platform help organizations to move seamlessly over the cloud.
Ensure Compliance
Although the data leaves the company’s environment and enters into the cloud provider’s platform after migration, the requirement of data regulatory and compliance is always under the administrator’s control. As the organization matures, IT admins must evolve ways to manage and align the capabilities of the cloud service providers according to their compliance requirements. Organizations must involve their cloud and network experts while dealing with cloud service providers. Users can request the cloud providers to share the copies of internal audits with them. Ensure compliance in your cloud environment can exceptionally improve your security measures.
Safeguard Organization to Secure the Cloud
Overall, it is important to upgrade the basic security parameters of the organizations on a regular basis while considering the cloud migration. The overall security posture is affected by the level of diligence taken by cloud service providers. Implementing critical technical measures and security policies for cloud procurement and its technical implementation drives basic control requirements. It is important to filter out and scale the services offered by various cloud providers as per the requirements of the organization. Users need to assess and document the offerings based on their workload dependencies and sensitivity of their data those services will hold. Prioritizing services based on these factors increases the organizational scrutiny and technical aspects in order to maintain the overall defensive posture of the respective company.
