As businesses continue to harness the power of generative AI, it becomes crucial to address the intricate relationship between this technology and application security.
The emergence of P4CHAINS serves as a reminder to stay on top of basic security fundamentals and reinforces the complex nature of securing business applications.
Building stronger multi-cloud security: 3 key elements
If complexity is the enemy of security, multi-cloud presents a formidable foe. Here, experts offer advice on rising to the challenges of securing multi-cloud environments Credit: Dreamstime
Enterprise IT has embraced the multi-cloud model, with surveys showing that nearly all organisations now use multiple cloud providers as well as numerous cloud-based solutions.
2020 State of the Cloud Report from Flexera, a provider of IT management solutions, found that 93 per cent of enterprises have a multi-cloud strategy - up from 81 per cent two years ago - with respondents now using an average of 2.2 public clouds and 2.2 private clouds.
But the expanding mix of public and private clouds as well as software-as-a-service applications within the typical enterprise has also given rise to growing security concerns. Some 83% of enterprises surveyed by Flexera listed security as a challenge ahead of concerns about managing cloud spend (listed by 82%) and governance (cited by 79%).
“The challenge that multicloud presents to security teams continues to grow. The number of services that are being released, the new ways of interacting, the interconnecting of services and systems, all of that continues to advance and all of these add new complexities into the enterprise security model,” says Randy Armknecht, a managing director and the emerging technologies and global cloud practice leader at consulting firm Protiviti.