**The objectives for security don’t change when you migrate to cloud. But how you achieve them will.**
The role of a security team is to identify, investigate and respond to threats to the business. Cloud security and cybersecurity are high on the list of threats.
Cloud security demands applying security principles and tools to cloud assets and using tools hosted in the cloud to enhance security posture.
Security strategy must include mitigations for business continuity, disaster recovery, and risks from vendor conflicts of interest and threats via multi-cloud use.
Hosting IT services in the cloud splits operational and security responsibilities with a shared responsibility model.
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How you achieve security objectives change when you migrate to cloud
Shifting to the cloud for security is more than a simple technology change, it’s a generational shift. Security teams have to partner closely with business and IT teams to understand organizational objectives and establish shared goals around productivity, reliability, and security.
Read this Defining your cloud security strategy (unit4.com) whitepaper to learn more about modernizing your strategy and managing risk in the cloud.
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In 2020, Microsoft had 2.5 billion cloud-based detections that blocked almost 6 billion threats
More than 30 billion authentications are process across 425 million users through Azure Active Directory
30 billion email threats were blocked by Microsoft 365 Defender in 2020
Compliance solutions process more than 5 billion document classifications each month
Azure Sentinel analyzes over 4 petabytes of data each month from Azure, Amazon Web Services, on-premises, and more
Hosting IT services in the cloud splits the operational and security responsibilities for workloads between the cloud provider and the customer. For our solutions, responsibility is split between Unit4, the customer, and Microsoft Azure.