Whilst there has been much written about the many benefits of the cloud, there is still a slow uptake when it comes to using cloud for physical security applications.

To streamline the security infrastructure, the non-profit organization turned to a unified cloud platform that would integrate with its existing technologies and allow for scalability and future growth.

Whether your organization is migrating its physical security technology or any other operational technologies or processes onto the cloud, all security leaders need to migrate security controls and good security practices with those changes – or risk disaster.

Organizations' migration to the cloud is a broad term that encompasses many different trends: (1) Moving existing applications from private data centers to AWS, Azure, or the Google Cloud Platform as cloud service providers (CSPs), often referred to as lift-and-shift or infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS); (2) Completely restructuring how applications are built to make heavier use of prepackaged services available on these cloud service platforms – often referred to as lift-and-reshape, serverless, or platform-as-a-service (PaaS); (3) Choosing to forgo running copies of standard applications instead of having the application vendor host them is sometimes referred to as drop-and-shop or software-as-a-service (SaaS).

For enterprises to implement cloud technology successfully, the C-Suite and IT teams need to work closely to coordinate and deliver a wide range of as-a-service technical offerings. How can enterprises increase the relationship between the board and tech teams and help to develop a prosperous, collaborative partnership?

Have you heard? Cloud is here and it’s there for you to exploit it and reap all the benefits.