Kaspersky Lab after conducting an survey with over 250 IT security leaders discovered that uncontrolled cloud expansion is the top security concern for more than half (58%) of CISOs. Despite its advantages, cloud computing, especially when the cloud infrastructure is hosted by a third-party, may also bring additional cybersecurity challenges. An average data breach from an incident in the public cloud costs an enterprise $1.64m. So, while an organization’s overall IT infrastructure becomes heterogeneous with cloud, CISOs are facing more headaches to keep their data secure and protect company finances as a result.
Managing complex IT environments is also becoming even more difficult due to a lack of talent — another challenge for corporate cybersecurity. Hybrid cloud adoption requires specialists with the necessary skills to configure and manage security for all parts of the IT infrastructure. For CISOs, this results in staffing problems: more than a third (38%) claim it is difficult to recruit specialists to cope with this ‘cloud zoo’.
Against this backdrop, CISOs need a single solution that not only provides them with a high level of security, but also ensures the business’s cybersecurity layer is visible and can be managed across the whole cloud infrastructure, even by a limited cloud security team.
Maxim Frolov, Vice President of Global Sales at Kaspersky Lab explains, “There’s no denying that with the business benefits it brings, cloud is a key part of the strategic digital transformation journey for many enterprises. The use of cloud is growing fast, and businesses are not going to be put off adoption because of security concerns. It’s therefore vital that resilient security is also quickly and effectively implemented, to support this rapid adoption.
“Safeguarding data and workloads in the cloud environment, in addition to supporting the native security capabilities of a cloud platform is crucial,” continued Frolov.
Kaspersky Hybrid Cloud Security builds on Kaspersky Lab’s extensive experience and keeps businesses secure by protecting applications and data in physical, virtual and cloud workloads. Kaspersky Hybrid Cloud Security provides API-based integration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) and supports the Microsoft Azure cloud platform, allowing customers to securely move data and applications across their IT environments. It also provides a unified management and security orchestration console to manage IT security on-premise and in the cloud — which partially alleviates the problem of a lack of personnel.