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Not too long ago, McKinsey released a report titled “Making a secure transition to the public cloud,” the result of interviews with IT security experts at nearly 100 enterprises around the world.
Leveraging the expertise of Google Cloud and McKinsey security experts, the research presents a strategic framework for IT security in cloud and hybrid environments, and provides recommendations on how to migrate to the cloud while keeping security top of mind.
The research shows what many already know: that public cloud adoption is accelerating thanks to increased technical flexibility, simpler scaling, and lower operating costs.
What’s exciting is that the research also reveals that many Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) no longer view security as an inhibitor to adoption but instead an opportunity.
“In many cases [CISOs] acknowledge that cloud service providers’ security resources dwarf their own,” the authors write—and now these companies are focused on how to best adopt and configure cloud services for increased security.
The research identifies three common archetypes for perimeter security: backhauling, cleansheeting, and adopting cloud provider controls by default.
McKinsey uses these three models, along with the decision to re-architect applications for the cloud, to identify six “archetypes” for cloud security. Each archetype has its own tradeoffs.
The report also includes a tactical 10-step plan for successful cloud migration. Download it now.
Employees use tools at their disposal to get work done, but if these tools (often legacy) hamper collaboration or are inflexible, they’ll turn to less secure options for the sake of convenience. According to Gartner, a third of successful attacks experienced by enterprises will come from Shadow IT usage by 2020.
The age of unthinking fears about cloud security is over. Not only is cloud adoption rising steadily across geographies, industries and job functions, but confidence in cloud security is rising as well — to the point where increased security is a major reason enterprises opt for cloud solutions. Gone are
The perimeter has disappeared and access to company data is no longer limited to your physical office or your employees. Instead, in today’s transformed workforce - increasingly connected, collaborative and in the cloud - the security perimeter has become dispersed and elastic, wrapped around each user and device. Moreover, ‘users’
Why do we keep talking about security all the time? Why hasn’t anyone just gone and fixed it? You’ve probably heard these questions, whether from your leadership, or a board member or just from friends. Then you labor at explaining why security in the cloud is so complex and challenging,
