Reducing the cloud security overhead

Sponsored Feature The world is filled with choices. Whether it's the 20 different types of shampoo on offer at the grocery store, or the dozens of Linux distros you can try for free, you can have it all. The same goes for cloud service providers. Increasingly, companies are spreading the love between multiple cloud services when offloading workloads to public cloud infrastructure. But that choice brings a big security headache, because it makes your infrastructure harder to see and control. A recent study by 451 Research found that 98 percent of enterprises have now adopted a multi-cloud infrastructure strategy. They're doing it for several reasons. The one that might first spring to mind - redundancy and disaster recovery - is the least pervasive, at 21 percent. Instead, companies are more focused on data sovereignty (the need to keep certain data in your national borders), and cost optimization, which are primary multi-cloud drivers for around four in ten companies. Lack of security skills a problem Cloud solutions might help companies to manage costs and data location more effectively, but securing these fragmented infrastructures takes some maturity. Unfortunately, cloud strategies are often immature, growing organically like weeds. Cloud computing can offer significant advantages to enterprises in terms of scalability, cost-effectiveness, and flexibility. But the ability to fully realize its benefits often depends on whether the organization possesses the requisite secur...