Previewing the cloud landscape in the year 2018
In the rapidly evolving digital landscape of 2018, cloud security and compliance have taken centre stage as companies grapple with the increasing complexity of their IT infrastructures. The following trends and key steps are shaping the future of cloud security, as businesses strive to keep pace with the speed and agility of cloud environments, while maintaining control and visibility.
Predictive Security: A Proactive Approach
As cyber threats continue to evolve, companies are expected to make a significant shift towards predictive security, rather than reactive security measures. By incorporating AI-driven anomaly detection, reinforcement learning for adaptive response, and predictive analytics, businesses can proactively identify unknown threats and automate regulatory compliance checks, thus reducing human dependency in incident responses.
Embracing DevSecOps: Integrating Security into Development
The DevSecOps mindset, which integrates security into the development process, is becoming more necessary for companies. By adopting this approach, security engineers' roles may be fundamentally changed, requiring a shift in skillset and focus. The DevSecOps mindset will potentially change the role of a security engineer, affecting both hiring practices and processes.
Multi-Cloud Strategies: Navigating Complexity
The shift to multi-cloud is driven by various factors, including availability and disaster recovery requirements, technology preferences, and cost management. As organizations adopt multiple cloud providers, security solutions are evolving toward unified monitoring and automated orchestration across heterogeneous environments to maintain consistent policy enforcement and threat response.
Cloud-Native Approach: The Future of IT Operations
In 2018, companies are expected to transition to a cloud-native approach, potentially rendering traditional host-based operation systems obsolete or requiring reinvention. This shift will necessitate new security approaches tailored for ephemeral workloads and APIs, which have become prime targets for attackers exploiting vulnerabilities in IoT devices and cloud services.
Security and Compliance Reporting: Beyond Annual Audits
More enterprises may demand security and compliance Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and regular reporting, moving beyond annual audits. This trend is driven by the increasing number of cloud-related breaches traced back to 3rd party vendors in 2017, leading to a growing demand from customers for more comprehensive compliance reporting.
The Rise of Cryptocurrency-related Attacks
The rise in attacks on clouds for cryptocurrency mining is due to the significant amount of money that can be gained by capitalizing on others' systems. As the price of bitcoin continues to increase, it is anticipated that there will be an anticipated rise in attacks on clouds for cryptocurrency mining.
In conclusion, the future of cloud security and compliance automation is focused on leveraging automation, AI, and orchestration technologies to keep pace with the complexity and speed of cloud environments, emerging threat vectors, and regulatory demands. The focus is on embedding security and compliance directly into cloud operations to achieve agility without sacrificing control or visibility.
- As the future of IT operations transforms towards a cloud-native approach, businesses will need to adopt new security approaches tailored for ephemeral workloads and APIs, a key trend in data-and-cloud-computing technology.
- With the increase in attacks on clouds for cryptocurrency mining, it is crucial for technology to incorporate AI-driven anomaly detection and predictive analytics to proactively identify unknown threats, as part of a comprehensive cloud-security strategy.
