**The ultimate objectives for a security organization don’t change when you migrate to cloud. But how those objectives are achieved will change.**
Managing and mitigating risk is on the agenda of all businesses. 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 that security teams need to manage, like:
Cloud security demands both applying security principles and tools to cloud assets to ensure they’re properly protected, and using tools and approaches hosted in or facilitated by the cloud to enhance your security posture (such as rapid scaling of functions and greater visibility of individual assets.)
Moving to the cloud isn’t without risk, and your strategy must include appropriate mitigations for business continuity and disaster recovery, security, and the risks presented by both conflicts of interest with your vendor and potential exposure to threats via multi-cloud use.
Hosting IT services in the cloud splits the operational and security responsibilities. All security teams must study and understand this shared responsibility model to adapt their processes, tools, and skill sets to the new world.
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The ultimate objectives for a security organization don’t change when you migrate to cloud – but how you achieve them does.
Shifting to the cloud for security is more than a simple technology change, it’s a generational shift – akin to moving from mainframes to desktops and onto enterprise servers. And successfully navigating it requires fundamental shifts in the expectations and mindset of your security teams. They’ll have to partner closely with business and IT teams to understand organizational objectives and establish shared goals around productivity, reliability, and security work collaboratively to achieve them to achieve them. This will enable everyone to contribute both to company goals and security goals.
While the changes involved can seem daunting, modernizing your strategy lets you shed some of the burdens of legacy approaches and take a more dynamic approach. Mature cloud platforms, like Microsoft Azure, are built with such an approach in mind.
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 tenant, creating a de facto partnership with shared responsibilities. All security teams must study and understand this shared responsibility model to adapt their processes, tools, and skill sets to the new world. For our solutions, responsibility is split between Unit4, the Customer, and Microsoft Azure.
