Countless of services we use in our daily life are backed by Cloud computing, thanks to its agility and global presence from many cloud service providers nowadays. Although we tend not to realize about their cloud dependency until such services stop functioning or involve in an “unfortunate” event where a cybersecurity breach result in data leak.
I said “unfortunate” as one of the first misconception is any services deployed on Cloud should have been already “secured”, when it is a continuous education that Cloud Security is a Shared Responsibility between cloud customer and cloud service provider. Another challenge is an organization may have to let Cloud Security takes a back seat while prioritizing to migrate/deployment of service to cloud.
Fire Fighting
Having a comprehensive monitoring, detection & response no doubt is an important part of overall Cloud Security. Although solely focus on security alerts may mislead to react to whatever cause the latest security incident and less on what is a suitable strategic approach. Let’s say a high-profile vulnerability in the news may trigger an organization to urgently…
