The headlong rush into the cloud continues to accelerate, promising increased efficiency, flexibility and security for IT operations. But chief security officers are not off the hook when it comes to fortifying the privacy and security of their organizations’ sensitive data. In fact, quite the opposite is true.
Over the past five years, cloud and security have largely been siloed, but more recently they’ve begun to converge as cloud and hybrid cloud infrastructures have grown in popularity. In addition, new DevOps strategies have created extra layers of complexity in the effort to speed up software releases and improve application quality.