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TRENDING
SEEING THROUGH
THE CLOUD TO
ENSURE SECURITY
A McAfee study underlines the ubiquitous nature of
cloud services but managing these requires specialised
knowledge. Raj Samani, Chief Scientist at McAfee, tells
us how to address the security challenges this presents.
He argues that better visibility enables organisations to
respond more quickly to cloud security threats.
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loud services are nearly ubiquitous,
with 97% of worldwide IT
professionals surveyed using some
type of cloud functions in their organisation,
up from 93% just one year ago, according
to data from a recent McAfee study.
Indeed, this cloud-first strategy has driven
organisations to take on many different
providers in their cloud ecosystem. As
organisations tackle new data use initiatives,
intelligence building, new capabilities to
store and execute on applications, we
have seen an explosion in the number of
sanctioned cloud providers that businesses
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are reporting, each a source of potential risk
and management need for the organisation.
The provider count requires readiness in
governance strategy that joins security
capabilities and procurement together to
protect the data entrusted to each new
cloud deployment.
As a consequence, security operations
teams will need to have enhanced visibility,
that is unified, to compose a picture
across so many different environments
containing enterprise data and then map
this visibility against resources to ensure the
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ORGANISATIONS
ARE NOT ONLY
LACKING
CYBERSECURITY
TALENT, BUT
SUFFICIENT
CLOUD SECURITY
TALENT.
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