Intelligent CISO Issue 29 | Page 16

latest intelligence SAFEGUARDING YOUR MICROSOFT AZURE CLOUD ESTATE PRESENTED BY DOWNLOAD WHITEPAPERS AT: WWW.INTELLIGENTCISO.COM/ WHITEPAPERS ublic and managed clouds P are now a part of the enterprise IT landscape. What’s new is an increasing recognition that public clouds like Microsoft Azure have matured to the point that they are ready to handle even business-critical workloads. These capabilities will have an impact on the security vision of enterprise organizations, and the construction of their IT strategies. How will your IT infrastructure scale and evolve over the next three to five years? How can the best use be made of the capabilities of public and managed clouds, while ensuring that the resulting hybridized infrastructure remains reliable and, above all, safe? Cybersecurity incidents continue to be a huge concern, with increasing numbers large organizations suffering the financial, reputational, and sometimes legal consequences. Corporate security must be agile and intelligent enough to fight against current and future threats, and must also have the scalability and the flexibility to adapt and evolve alongside your hybridized cloud environment, incorporating both public and private cloud estates. Private and Public Clouds – your Hybrid Environment Securing your private cloud is a relatively straightforward business. The use of virtualization to create a software-enabled data center is a comparatively established practice, and Kaspersky Lab has responded with specialist software designed to offer the lightest footprint on the virtual machine (or, in the case of VMware, no discernable footprint at all) to optimize the efficiencies and protect the resource savings and flexibility that virtualization technology delivers. u 16 Issue 29 | www.intelligentciso.com