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MERGING TECHNOLOGY ALERTS AND BUSINESS CONTEXT
Business risk observability is the answer to fighting back data fragmentation and it breaks down silos across the IT department and brings applications and security teams together around a single source of truth explains Gregg Ostrowski at Cisco AppDynamics .
Few technology paradigms have been as transformative as that of cloud computing . Businesses across the Middle East were quick to shed initial concerns and most now position themselves as being cloud-first . Indeed , the cloud application market in the region , which stood at a respectable US $ 2 billion in 2019 , is set to more than double , reaching US $ 4.5 billion in just the half decade .
But rapid growth has also exposed new vulnerabilities . Organisations now find themselves on the backfoot , ill prepared to counter the threats introduced by the cloud-oriented evolution of their IT environments . A recent study in the UAE found that just a third , 35 % of businesses in the Emirates that have deployed Kubernetes have tools in place to protect against dataloss incidents such as ransomware .
Business risk observability is a must for any organisation that considers itself to be cloud-first .
This is particularly concerning as attackers on the other hand are well-prepared . Bad actors are targeting known vulnerabilities within Kubernetes clusters , and these threats will continue to rise as organisations shift to cloud native platforms .
Far from trying to put the genie back in the bottle , organisations need to find modern ways to protect modern applications across the entire lifecycle . Traditional approaches for managing application security simply are not fit for purpose within highly
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