The IT industry is undergoing massive change as businesses have migrated from virtualization to containerization, and from on-premise to hybrid or cloud-only.
More than 31% of organizations globally have already migrated their production IT operations to the Cloud-enabling them to move their IT expenditure from Capex to Opex, or to a fixed-price service contract. They are also adopting Agile and CI/CD-based operations.
Managers often race to the Cloud as they assume that it is cheaper and easier and that it looks after itself. Nothing could be further from the truth and Cloud customers often receive a huge shock as the bill is far larger than expected.
Whilst there are many positive reasons for moving to the Cloud, there are also a lot of new challenges as Cloud vendors offer a “shared security” model which means they are responsible for their availability of their infrastructure but are not responsible for the security of customer workloads, apps, or data. This means that the customer is responsible for securing their applications and data, and for protecting themselves and their clients from attack or data loss.
Security teams are now rushing to catch-up and to control and manage new threats posed by containers and off-the-shelf cloud workloads.