Intelligent CISO Issue 12 | Page 15

latest intelligence 6 KEY USE CASES FOR SECURING YOUR ORGANIZATION’S CLOUD WORKLOADS PRESENTED BY THE CONTINUING RISE OF CLOUD ADOPTION T oday, an increasing number of organizations are taking advantage of the benefits of cloud- based infrastructure by making the journey to public, private and hybrid cloud environments. Some that are further along in their cloud journeys leverage DevOps pipelines to increase their business agility, while others focus on cost savings and access to on- demand compute. The business benefits are very real, but as more business-critical applications and services migrate to the cloud, ensuring the security of these cloud workloads becomes essential – as www.intelligentciso.com | Issue 12 does the need to maintain and enforce enterprise-wide security policies in a consistent way. As cloud vendors including AWS, Azure and Google make clear, security in the cloud is a shared responsibility. Though the public cloud vendors take great efforts to secure the cloud infrastructure – compute, storage, etc – their customers are fully responsible for protecting basically everything above the hypervisor, including the operating system, applications, data, access to external resources and other assets and infrastructure. While the benefits of cloud computing are very real for organisations, so too are the responsibilities around ensuring the security of the organisation’s cloud workloads. The vulnerabilities within the organisation’s cloud workloads are also very real, as some unfortunate organisations have found to their peril. u DOWNLOAD WHITEPAPERS AT: WWW.INTELLIGENTCISO.COM/ WHITEPAPERS 15