FEATURE : CLOUD
Security vs . complexity :
The key battlefield in the hybrid cloud era
After the massive attack on SolarWinds that impacted companies around the world , a debate has emerged about cloud security , and whether the public cloud may be a more secure option than a hybrid cloud approach . Alvaro Santa Maria , IBM Security Director Latinoamérica , offers some guiding principles to consider to help design security for the hybrid cloud era .
Rather than debating which approach to the cloud is more secure , the question we should ask ourselves is : which model do we need to design security for ? As the Director of IBM Security in Latin America , I believe that technology leaders should be designing for the way businesses are working today , rather than pigeonhole one computing model over the other .
The SolarWinds incident , for example , took advantage of the broad chain of technology providers that companies are relying on today . The security challenge of this supply chain has been around for decades , but it is also just one factor that contributes to an even bigger problem facing security teams today : complexity .
In other words , the biggest security challenge we face today is not inherent in the technologies themselves , but rather in the disconnected technologies and strategies that are used to secure them .
Complexity is the enemy of security
Hybrid cloud environments have emerged as an important focus for governments and companies , public or private , that have critical and regulated data
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