Many organizations accelerated digital transformation in response to COVID-19 to remain resilient and competitive, with heavy investments in the cloud. This trend will continue well beyond the initial stages of the pandemic, with IDC’s spending forecast on “whole cloud” services to surpass $1.3 trillion by 2025.
Unfortunately, side effects from these expanded architectures include enhanced risk of shadow IT and unauthorized cloud access, as well as disparate tool sets that can lead to governance gaps. Better visibility of assets is key to solving these issues, and one of the most powerful items in the visibility toolkit is cloud tagging – the process of labeling cloud assets by certain attributes or operational values for better organization, search, and filtering of these assets.
Let’s examine how enterprises can upskill on cloud tagging to meet the additional security and governance hurdles that come with expanded and distributed cloud architectures – and how the most advanced cloud tagging methodologies can unlock behavioral insights to optimize and automate cyber asset management at scale.
Proper tagging is at the center of effective cloud governance for reporting,…
