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GUEST ESSAY: The key to a successful cloud migration – embrace a security-first strategy

The Last Watchdog

Gartner predicts that spending on public cloud alone is set to top $500 billion in 2022 – a 20% growth over last year. But often overlooked in the migration process is the significance of a company’s embedded security measures. At a minimum, plan to review your cloud security policy annually. Revisit your policy often.

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Taking a Security-First Approach to Cloud Migration

Security Boulevard

Over the past year, organizations have seen how important cloud computing is to business operations. In fact, according to a MariaDB survey, 40% of respondents said that COVID-19 accelerated their migration. The post Taking a Security-First Approach to Cloud Migration appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Securing Data in the Digital Transformation Era

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

As organizations continue to embrace digital transformation, greater amounts of sensitive data is created, stored and transferred in digital form putting more data at risk. Also with the increase in cloud, mobile, and IoT devices, a whole new generation of attack surfaces are vulnerable to hackers.

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Q&A: Sophos poll shows how attackers are taking advantage of cloud migration to wreak havoc

The Last Watchdog

Cloud migration, obviously, is here to stay. But there’s no doubt that the exodus to a much greater dependency on hybrid cloud and multi-cloud resources – Infrastructure-as-a-Service ( IaaS ) and Platforms-as-a-Service ( PaaS ) – is in full swing.

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Digital Resilience is the New Digital Transformation KPI

Security Boulevard

Digital Resilience is the New Digital Transformation KPI. Innovation and digital transformation rely on digital resilience to turn business disruption into revenue opportunities. What is Digital Resilience? Digital resilience was a major theme at IDC Directions 2021 in March. Sharon Bell.

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Best Practices for Your Digital Transformation Journey

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Best Practices for Your Digital Transformation Journey. Do you recall when the phrase “Digital Transformation” seemed like just the latest technology buzzword, and it seemed so far off in the future as to be one of those projects for another day? Two main challenges involve application modernization and cloud migration.

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The Role of the CISO in Digital Transformation

Dark Reading

A successful CISO should play a leading role in digital transformation and cloud migration initiatives in their organization. The CISO is responsible for making sure technical security controls are designed and implemented appropriately, and changes are properly managed, with security in mind from the very start.