For CIOs pursuing multi-cloud strategies, there are a wide variety of governance, risk management and regulatory compliance challenges. CIOs must simplify the management of vulnerabilities, create a shared responsibility model with cloud providers, solve GDPR compliance challenges, address microservices used across clouds and stay abreast of shadow IT deployments.
“CIOs are increasingly embracing multi-cloud data management environments, which include not only the use of various Cloud Service Providers but also public and private cloud,” said Tom McAndrew, CEO of Coalfire Systems Inc., a cyber-risk management service.
There are a few drivers for the adoption of multi-cloud environments, McAndrew said, including the desire to avoid locking the organization into a relationship with or dependency on a single vendor. A multi-cloud approach also increases agility, enables the company to leverage new services from different cloud service providers and, of course, potentially decreases costs. But the flexibility and cost-savings multi-cloud offers is not without risk.
Coalfire Systems Inc.
“With these benefits also come challenges that organizations must…
