Infographic Securing Cloud at Every Level: How to Cover Your Bases
How are today’s leaders addressing top data protection concerns in the cloud?
By Insight Editor / 11 Jun 2024 / Topics: Cloud Managed security Data protection
Data volumes are growing, threats are evolving and security teams are under high pressure. Explore this infographic to discover the top challenges faced in protecting data in the cloud and see how security front-runners are prioritizing protection, detection and response.
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From detecting and responding to threats with advanced AI capabilities to ensuring compliance and data protection, today’s front-running businesses are investing in a holistic approach. Explore the top challenges — and how leaders are solving them.
Protection: Solid foundations
Data protection is a whole new ballgame in a constantly shifting threat landscape. Today’s organizations are looking for new ways to maintain regulatory compliance, safeguard sensitive information and prevent costly breaches.
Top challenges:
- Data proliferation
- Encryption for data in transit and at rest
- Insider threats
- Regulatory compliance complexity
What security front-runners prioritize:
- Data classification to inform protection strategies
- Modern encryption tools and strategies
- Intentional identity and access management and access controls
- Next-gen data loss prevention tools
- Endpoint security across the entire ecosystem
Detection: Eyes on everything
Early — and accurate — detection of threats is crucial for organizations to mitigate risks, minimize potential damage and maintain operational continuity.
Top challenges
- Alert fatigue
- Resource constraints
- Volume and complexity of data
- Adapting to rapid change across threat landscape
What security front-runners prioritize:
- Evaluating security policies and requirements considering business needs/industry best practices
- Uncovering strengths, gaps and opportunities in existing security infrastructure
- Investigating threats with AI
- Minimizing false positives
- Detecting previously uncovered threats
- Designing the ideal future SOC, with next-gen approaches and tool sets
- Managed security to offload teams and provide 24/7, full-scale coverage
Response: Taking action
When the worst happens, a robust incident response plan helps minimize downtime, reduce financial loss and ease panic across the business.
Top challenges:
- Slow response times
- Lack of planning/a playbook
- Coordination and communication
- Containing complex incidents
What security front-runners prioritize:
- Incident response planning using frameworks such as NIST
- Tabletop exercises (on-site and remote simulations to prepare key personnel)
- Focused threat hunting, disabling any existing compromises in the IT ecosystem
- Access to rapid support to identify, contain and remediate threats
- Support for internal teams with system maintenance and ongoing protection
- Lessons learned exercises to identify opportunities for improvement moving forward
Recovery: Restoring and resuming business
Having a robust Disaster Recovery (DR) plan ensures quick recovery from disruptions, minimized downtime and business continuity in the face of unforeseen events.
Top challenges
- Out-of-date backups
- System remediation
- Incident analysis
- Business continuity
What security front-runners prioritize:
- Thorough development of DR strategy
- Confirming DR strategies can execute before disaster
- Centralized replication, failover and failback management
- Data resilience — orchestrating replication without intercepting application data
- Ongoing DR drills
Insight: A security partner you can count on
A comprehensive approach is the future of stronger cybersecurity — no matter the industry. Organizations that work with Insight can expect:
- Comprehensive ransomware and cyberthreat prevention and protection solutions and strategies
- Security for hybrid and multicloud environments that use automation, AI and machine learning
- Modern data protection that spans cloud, edge and on-premises — encompassing data classification, governance, compliance and disaster recovery
- Best-fit tools for monitoring IT environments, protecting data and safeguarding endpoints and workloads — propelled by long-running partnerships with the most trusted brands
