Security vulnerabilities tend to stick around. SQL injection, for instance, has been a popular means of exploiting databases for years and remains a significant cyber threat.
As we respond by adapting and fortifying our security defenses, however, cyberattack targets tend to shift — so it’s essential to understand the ever-changing nature of your clients’ risk landscape .
These days, your clients need to be aware of several ways that cybercriminals are likely to threaten their operations:
Fasten your seatbelt. I’m driving into the realm of digital security, which can turn into a rather hairy ride.
Despite its challenges, digital security deployment is what stops the hackers, malicious actors, and spies from stealing everything. So let me begin by telling you to stay vigilant, because as the use of digital technologies becomes more pervasive, so do the attempts to exploit it for nefarious purposes.
Public cloud apps and services are great for shifting your non-differentiated business functions and infrastructure from expensive on-premise environments to low-cost off-site facilities managed by specialists you have no hope of keeping on staff.
Yet, if you’re facing shadow IT issues, demands to improve security and compliance, or the realization that you must prepare for a future in which success depends on your ability to differentiate your business , then you need something more than public cloud subscriptions.
Too often when you’re in the market for a new or upgraded IT capability, it’s by necessity, because your operations have been thrown into crisis by some sort of failure and you need a solution now. In resolving disaster recovery and business continuity crises, you’ll likely end up with an ‘as a service’ solution, since you can get it up and running quickly with little or no CapEx. And, especially if you’re in crisis, you may think all DRaaS solutions
As I’ve clarified in recent posts, cloud services generally provide the most resource-efficient way to satisfy your organization’s IT requirements — and usually are most effectively deployed via a hybrid cloud combining selected public cloud subscriptions with customized private cloud capabilities.
The arguments for hybrid clouds that you hear most often are, basically, defensive, powering the customizations that legacy environments depend on, protecting sensitive data, and boosting compliance.
Much of the appeal of cloud services lies in their ability to mask the complexity of the information technologies we all depend on.
Thus, as your clients’ employees sign on to public clouds, their IT staffs must respond with hybrid cloud solutions that address the resulting shadow IT, security, and compliance issues.
