Enterprises across every vertical in every geography have moved to the cloud en masse. The cloud has revolutioned the way IT infrastructure gets managed – removing the need to purchase, install, and configure hardware – shifting the focus to building applications.
Cloud-first enterprises are reaping the benefits of greater flexibility, improved business continuity, and cost reduction. Not surprisingly, Gartner anticipates that 70% of all enterprise workloads will get deployed in cloud infrastructure platform services by 2023, up from 40% in 2020. Further, Gartner predicts worldwide spending on public cloud services will reach $600 billion in 2023.
Cloud-first doesn’t always mean security-first
Despite realizing many of the promises of the cloud, enterprises have also quickly realized the many security challenges that follow. Unanticipated pressures driven by the pandemic to provide remote work capabilities and access to business critical systems from anywhere anytime greatly accelerated a trend that was not really supposed to be completed in just two years. In great haste, many overwhelmed enterprises relied on security from the public cloud platform providers, or opted to…
