CLOUD SECURITY // Stephen Moore
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any people may think that Cloud Computing is a new trend, but in reality the principles of virtualised networks started around 60 years ago. Advanced technology and research organisations, particularly in the defence industry, started to look at how to utilise computer hardware in smarter ways. Over the last 20 years these principles have really started to gain momentum globally. Technology companies in particular have increasingly designed products and accompanying services on the back of these cloud based computing and storage capabilities. Today adopting cloud is no longer a choice but a necessity. In fact most businesses of all shapes and sizes
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CYBERWATCH
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will be consuming some cloud based service and will no doubt have a technology roadmap that will be reliant on utilising cloud capabilities. While cloud adoption has been progressing over the last decade, it really accelerated due to the global pandemic. The decisions of when a company might need to adopt certain capabilities were brought forward. Perhaps in some instances this was before they were ready or fully understood the potential impact, especially when it comes to security architecture and managing their data in a robust way.The resulting corporate business environment is now a bit like a busy swimming pool.
