The benefits of natively integrated cloud security solutions: Deployment and management strategies

When it comes to securing cloud environments, organisations have lots of options. The marketplaces provided by cloud vendors are filled with a wide array of security solutions. Many are from vendors who also build a broad set of security products spanning cloud and on-premises environments, while others are from vendors focused exclusively on purpose-built cloud security tools. Given all of this, selecting the right tool can be bewildering.

One of the most important places to...

22 September 2020 | Adoption

How to manage the risk of cloud sprawl with centralised management

The public cloud is designed to enable agility, scalability, and adaptivity. The result is a massive proliferation of public cloud services and APIs offered by cloud platform providers, which help organisations increase the rate of innovation far beyond they could in the private data centre.

While these new cloud services deliver attractive benefits, they also increase management complexity and the potential for costly misconfiguration errors that can compromise critical...

28 August 2020 | Data & Analytics

How to build the talent pipeline to close the cloud security skills gap

When it comes to the security skills gap, cloud security skills continue to be the most sought after – and the hardest for organisations to fill. As cloud computing continues to be an essential part of business continuity and productivity with more organisations preparing for remote work over the long term, leaders must find new ways to fill this critical talent gap.

The need for cloud security skills is increasing

Cloud adoption was already growing rapidly, but that growth...

17 August 2020 | Best Practice

Leveraging the cloud to expand access for remote workers: A guide

As organisations work to enable remote workers and remote students to meet the sudden demands of the current crisis, their goal is to quickly enable remote services in a way that does not introduce additional security challenges or incur unjustified operational overhead. However, implementing such protocols – especially when blending networking and security into a single solution – can be a complicated process in the best of times, let alone when they need to happen in a short time...

1 May 2020 | Collaboration

Securing distributed clouds with an integrated approach: A guide

As digital innovation and resulting transformation increase, organisations also face the rise of traffic volumes from end user and IoT devices, SaaS applications and data from employees, consumers, and partners. As a result, many big data and large-scale applications simply outpace the centralised data centre infrastructure and the IT teams who have to manage and maintain distributed clouds.

New...

15 January 2020 | Applications

How leveraging APIs will help to enable comprehensive cloud security

Cloud computing has utterly transformed the IT industry, requiring organisations to make fundamental changes to how they design, deploy, manage and optimise their security strategy. Many organisations, however, are simply using the same security model they have relied on for over a decade in their traditional networks to the cloud. But true cloud security requires more than deploying isolated cloud-enabled network security tools to protect cloud-based...

24 May 2019 | Data & Analytics

Addressing cloud sprawl: Combining security best practices with business foundations

The rate of cloud adoption has been nothing short of remarkable. According to IDG, 90% of organisations will have some portion of their applications or infrastructure running in the cloud this year, with the rest expected to follow suit by 2021. And while most organisations currently run more than half (53%) of their business on traditional networks, IDG also predicts that this will drop to less than a third (31%) within the next year or so.

13 March 2019 | Adoption