Cybersecurity balances business processes, operational controls, and technology but it also entails that those solutions are controlled to properly identify and manage risks on a continuous basis. In today’s business environment security is a fundamentally functional and non-functional requirement and cannot be an afterthought where issues are chased after systems are operational. Delays, financial losses, and damaged brand equity are the fruits borne from failure. That’s why it’s vital that best practices be implemented by companies from the onset of any cloud migration strategy: backed by a robust and real-time capability to plan, investigate, and respond to all security incidents.
Offices have traditionally offered a controlled IT environment and shifting work dynamics have introduced new weaknesses, but good security practices can help make business continuity possible. Talent demands have accelerated the need to understand how employees work and to provide IT resources that fit the environment where they’re used. Some employees are even resigning from their positions if work from home isn’t indefinite; the urgency to migrate, quickly, is all too real. Cloud services support business enablement with many organizations moving away from thick clients (workstations at desks to virtualized services) and migrating their data to multi-tenant servers that have ‘shared responsibility’ models of configuration/security. The level of security and requirements must always be considered before utilizing any new technology.