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Head in the Clouds: Securing a path to the cloud for your business The path to the cloud might seem daunting, particularly for smaller businesses under pressure to ramp up their cloud transformation efforts, but with the right knowledge and partnerships in place, any short-term disruption will be heavily mitigated and the long-term benefits will slowly but surely come into sharp focus. BY STUART GREEN, CLOUD SECURITY ARCHITECT AT CHECK POINT SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES THE INTERNATIONAL DATA CORPORATION (IDC) has dubbed 2021 The Year of the Multicloud, and with good reason. Even prior to the pandemic, the market for cloud tools was broadening and becoming increasingly complex, giving businesses a lot to think about as they started to ramp up their digital transformation efforts. For small to medium-sized businesses in particular, the path to the cloud can often seem like a series of daunting hurdles with difficult questions to answer at every stage.
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Using an open-source tool might be an affordable way to get started, but what happens when that tool fades into obsolesce and stops receiving updates? What steps should a growing business take to ensure its cloud estate remains resilient and secure in the face of rising cybercrime? And what are the benefits and drawbacks of public cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud solutions? These are all crucial things for businesses to consider at the strategic level, before any kind of wholesale migration even takes place,
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