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HYBRID CLOUD IS NOT IMMUNE TO SECURITY RISKS
While African enterprises are expected to adopt hybrid cloud at a brisk pace , after SaaS and multicloud , they also need to deploy security tools to protect their cloud migration says Steve Flynn at ESET Southern Africa .
To protect data and other digital assets in hybrid cloud environments , businesses need to adopt a modernised , flexible and scalable cybersecurity approach . While small and mid-sized companies may not have the same IT challenges , and benefits , of larger organisations , their security needs , especially in an increasingly hybrid cloud world , are equally essential .
Hybrid cloud is not immune to something that is often organisations ’ top fear and operational snag : security risks .
Globally , organisations have taken to hybrid cloud in a big way for many well-documented reasons : flexibility , cost efficiency , the ability to balance internal control with workload migration , widespread scalability and faster time to value for new applications and services .
In South Africa , businesses are shifting their IT environments ’ structure to take advantage of the cloud , with many adopting a cloud-first architecture or , increasingly , a hybrid cloud model .
However , hybrid cloud is not immune to something that is often organisations ’ top fear and operational snag : security risks . Organisations certainly understand the need to secure their data , devices and applications in the cloud ; even though overall IT spending growth in 2020 was dampened by the pandemic , research indicates that spending on cloud security jumped by 33 %.
Irrespective of size , businesses need to stay on top of the rapidly evolving cyber risk landscape , and seek out
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