6 cloud security trends to watch for in 2022
January 10, 2022 – Published on HelpNetSecurity
GuidePoint Security’s Romke de Haan, Principal Consultant, wrote an article on cloud security trends to look out for this year. It’s fascinating to take a step back and look at how “the cloud” developed over the last two decades. There has been a lot of innovation that has sparked a new wave of technologies – from the boom in serverless technologies (allowing firms to scale and build platforms at speeds never seen before) to the evolution of cloud automation security.
These innovations have enabled organizations to improve business agility and reduce costs; but they’ve also increased the attack surface as demonstrated by a recent IDC report, which highlights that 98% of organizations suffered at least one cloud security breach in the previous 18-months.
- The growth of serverless
- DevSecOps
- More multi-cloud
- Applistructure
- SaaS Security
- Dynamic access policies with attribute-based access control (ABAC)
With more organizations employing a work-from-home and hybrid environments and moving workloads and data to the cloud, securing cloud-enabled infrastructure needs to be built in from the start. The cloud is an enabler of business productivity, yet it must be used with a security-first approach to minimize risk while concurrently advancing productivity.
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