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3 multi-cloud security challenges and how to build a security strategy

By infoguard | At November 4, 2018

November 4, 2018

3 multi-cloud security challenges and how to build a security strategy

With the increase in the number of the multi-cloud environment, the security threats and practices are also increasing. It is important for every organization to develop their security strategies in the start so that any attack can be averted.

As an organization moves more workload to the cloud-based system, it is vital to keep security top of mind. It becomes difficult for organizations to implement and govern security control when it adds a multi-cloud environment.

Multi-cloud security challenges

More security challenges come with the addition of a multi-cloud environment. To deal with the security challenges, an organization should make sure that all the entities are coordinated, breaches are identified and analysis is made on time and plans are developed to control them.

Given below are three security challenges, which an organization faces while adding a multi-cloud environment.

Increased complexity

As an organization adds more workload on multi-clouds, it adds more complexity. It becomes difficult for an organization to coordinate security policies, processes, and responses across multiple cloud providers.

An organization needs to obey all the rules and regulations of the countries in which they have extensions their data. It becomes difficult to protect data as the numbers of regulations are driving the control and mechanism that companies need to implement.

Lack of visibility

The employees of tech companies use various cloud services and can easily bypass tech enterprise to buy Software-as-a-Service offerings or other cloud-based services on their own. So an organization tries to protect a data, services, and business without having the clear location of the data.

New threats

After adding a multi-cloud environment, a security leader should recognize that the new cloud-based environment could give rise to new threats. Identifying the threats on time helps to create a secure and risk-free service.

Building a multi-cloud strategy

With the growth of a multi-cloud environment, the numbers of security practices have also improved. It is necessary for an organization to takes a few critical steps while developing their security strategies.

  • Identify all the places where data exists and ensure that the organization has a strong data governance program that has clear information about the data, IT services, and assets.
  • To deal with the threats, an organization should classify the information to create stratospheres of security. Through this method, the organization will recognize that all the data do not require the same level of trust and verifications to access.
  • To secure the multi-cloud environment, an organization should use encryption and identity and access management solutions like two-factor authentications.
  • Organizations should standardize their policies and planning to ensure that consistent application and automation helps to limit deviation.

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