The Need to Rethink How to Reduce the Risk of Public Cloud/Multi-Cloud

Today the need is strong for many firms to move applications to the public cloud. Flexera's State of the Cloud report has revealed that almost all enterprises have embraced multi-cloud with 93 percent of companies now using multiple cloud service providers (report -Apr 29, 2020) The obvious reasons for this shift is likely one or more of these needs - increased agility, scalability, self-service capabilities for groups/teams, ability to quickly leverage new technologies and services (serverless/ML/AI/IoT/) and also we cannot forget the pandemic. So, what you need to think of is what are the challenges to this new environment?

The challenges that you need to consider:

1. Cloud Inventory & Configuration is Dynamic
2. Increased fine grain Access Control can lead to:

• Possible Over Exposure
• Increased Personnel to Manage this discipline

3. Network Perimeter is Fuzzy

4. The cost of Misconfiguration can have huge ramifications (Blast Radius)

• Up-Time
• Breach of Sensitive Data

5. Lift & Shift –> Re-Architecture is not always the viable option from a timing perspective

You need a platform that can deliver the ability to Control Risk and gain better Visibility in these new environments

1. See Full Visibility of Risk, especially for Multi-Cloud environments

• Provide a Fully Time Stamped Dynamic Inventory
• Visibility of Your Current Risks in Total as well as the ability to view by your business context and need - application, team, department, line of business, and or region

2. External Third-Party Risk Auditing of Cloud Providers

• CSPs
• IaaS
• PaaS
• SaaS

3. Remediation of Risks

• Provide Remediation Delegation, Tracking, and Attestation
• Continuous Monitoring to Reduce Drift

 4. Single Record of Truth for Multi-Cloud Deployments

• Single Record of Truth for Multi-Cloud Deployments (past, present, and future modeling of inventory, usage, and change)

5. Preventing Risks

• Integrate to CI/CD Pipeline to catch things before they go out to production
• Behavioral Analytics to Detect A-Typical Patterns

6. Automation - Policy as Code

• The ability to take manual processes and convert to a write-once run everywhere capability. Hence speeding innovation, improving security, and reducing risk.

7. Compliance Adherence Reporting/Attestation

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Demo Videos

•      Get Full Visibility of All Your Cloud Assets

•      Simplify Cloud Governance with Business Context

•      Protect Your Cloud from Compromise

•      Automate Cloud Policies and Controls

•      Gain Visibility of Cloud Risks and Determine Who Is Responsible

Sample Reporting

•      Cloud Control Framework Report