Page 81 - Cyber Defense eMagazine August 2023

4 Secure Framework Considerations Before

Deploying Workloads in The Public Cloud

By Jhilam Biswas, Customer Engineering Manager, Google Cloud

Enterprises are adopting public cloud providers like never before. Gartner estimated the global forecasted
spend on public cloud services to grow by 20% from 2022. Enterprises adopt cloud for several reasons -
a couple of them being pay-as-you-go flexible pricing models and scalability. However, when moving
infrastructure to the cloud - be it core compute services, serverless technologies, databases, analytics
stack etc., security is often left as an afterthought. The repercussions of that mindset are huge, sometimes
leading to significant financial losses, irreversible damages and a negative impact on the enterprise’s
brand image. Hence moving to the cloud requires a thorough evaluation of potential risks, compliance
obligations and assessment of your business requirements. A recent Gartner report calls out “Through
2025, 99% of cloud security failures will be the customer’s fault.” In this article, we’ll cover 4 secure
framework considerations that an enterprise should absolutely be considering before making the move
to the cloud.

Cyber Defense eMagazine – August 2023 Edition 81
Copyright © 2023, Cyber Defense Magazine. All rights reserved worldwide.