Among the biggest cybersecurity challenges CISOs are facing is how to maintain data protection and privacy when their organizations shift workloads to the cloud. In particular, how can they manage security controls in a cloud-only environment?
This has become more important as organizations migrate to cloud services because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting shift to a work-from-home model. As research firm International Data Corp. (IDC) notes in an October 2020 report, the pandemic “has largely proven to be an accelerator of cloud adoption and extension and will continue to drive a faster conversion to cloud-centric IT.”
