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SECURING THE CLOUD VIDHU RAVEENDRAN, VICE PRESIDENT – NETWORKS & ENGINEERING, OMNICLOUDS, ON HOW HIS COMPANY IS REDEFINING CLOUD AND DATA SECURITY.
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he COVID-19 pandemic has largely proven to be an accelerator of cloud adoption and has become a lifeline for many organisations looking to stay in business. However, it also raises concerns about a cyber-pandemic involving data breaches and disrupted operations. According to OmniClouds, most organisations hosting data or operating in the public cloud experience a security incident, with multi-cloud organisations reporting up to twice as many incidents compared to single platform adopters. While the cloud helps many organisations improve their access to critical software apps and services, it has also introduced new challenges in maintaining strong cybersecurity. Some 30
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of the challenges include data breaches, data loss, insider threats, DDoS attacks, API security, and DR. Due to the cloud’s nature of sharing resources, cloud security gives particular concern to identity management, privacy, and access control. The reasons for a data breach in the cloud may include misconfiguration, inadequate change control, lack of cloud security architecture and strategy, insufficient identity credential access, account hijacking, insider threats, insecure interfaces and APIs, and a weak control plane. So how do we overcome some of these cloud security challenges? As more organisations transfer infrastructure and services to the cloud and adopt a multi-cloud strategy, cloud applications and data need a secure environment. But for all the benefits of
a multi-cloud strategy, some challenges come along. It can be challenging to secure a multi-cloud strategy because of the lack of visibility across hosts and services. Perhaps most intriguing of all, the data owner does not have physical access to the places and devices where that information is stored. This makes it easier for hackers to find exploitable vulnerabilities within an organisation’s infrastructure. OmniClouds solutions available in the cloud, on-premises, or as a blended combination of both, connect enterprise branches, teleworkers, and endusers securely and reliably to applications in the cloud or data centres worldwide. A single-pipeline integrated architecture combines comprehensive cloud security, advanced networking, industry-leading SD-WAN, robust analytics, and simplified automation into one software solution.
