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Businesses need to stay on top of the rapidly evolving cyber risk landscape , and seek out new , modernised and highly flexible solutions to help mitigate those risks in a hybrid cloud environment .
new , modernised and highly flexible solutions to help mitigate those risks in a hybrid cloud environment .
Organisations are experiencing an increase in number , diversity and sophistication of cyber threats . Advanced threat protection and overall cybersecurity management are often at the front and centre of an organisation ’ s approach to modernised cybersecurity , especially in hybrid cloud environments .
Using a centralised approach to cybersecurity through advanced software solutions , often as a cloud service , to stay secure from these multiple threats is an ideal method for protecting end users and valuable business data . Implementing a comprehensive security solution is far more efficient to deploy , simpler to manage and , in many cases , more cost-effective than purchasing individual products for different threats .
Compared to legacy approaches , cloud-based cybersecurity management is :
• A more appropriate fit for the increasingly challenging threat landscape , driven by overlapping attacks of different natures , often with no advanced warning .
• A better strategy to gain increased visibility into network , application , data and user behaviour over physical and virtual networks .
• A far simpler and more automated approach to coordinate a unified response to security threats .
Gone are the days when organisations could focus on mainstream , relatively simple security threats like viruses and keystroke logging . Now , the growing diversity of threats , combined with their overlapping attacks and long dwell times , the length of time an attack remains undetected inside an organisation ’ s cyber defences has raised the stakes . As organisations adopt hybrid cloud frameworks such as cloud-native application development , deployment , containerbased architectures , microservices and serverless computing , they need a security approach designed for a cloud-first or even cloud-only environment .
Selecting the right toolset for security in hybrid cloud environments carries far-reaching implications . Solutions that do not fully and properly address threats can result in
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