What are the Security and Risk Management Trends for 2022?
As we have stepped into yet another new year 2022, cloud security and trends will continue to define the foreseeable future. In general, the cloud is considered to be more secure than other on-premises technology. However, there are a lot more intricacies involved than it actually appears.
An on-prem environment with a lot of effort has the same default level of security as a reputable cloud provider's infrastructure. However, if your cloud configuration is weak, many security issues can arise. In general, the base security of the cloud coupled with a suitably protected customer configuration is stronger than most on-prem environments.
This becomes more true when clouds mature. In general, fundamentally more secure architecture such as Google Cloud has in-built security because it adheres to the principles of zero-trust. The pivotal idea behind the philosophy is that every network, devise, person, and service is untrusted until it proves itself.
The multiple, layered defenses are a core value that increasingly offers more values of protection from configuration errors and from attacks.
Prioritizing security by design is important and this requires a brand to have a team of highly capable security engineers. To optimize the backbone of cloud security in your organization, you must also be aware of the key trends within the industry.
Here’re the top trends that will dominate the year 2022 to optimize cloud security further:
1. Economy of Scale
If a brand is focused on decreasing the marginal cost of security, the baseline level of security rises. Public clouds provide sufficient scale to implement levels of security and resilience that few organizations can construct.
Google cloud builds and operates a global network. Google Cloud, for instance, enables pervasive data-in-transit and data-at-rest encryption; this ensures that our confidential computing nodes that encrypt data while it's in use are available.
Organizations must realize that the measurable level of security can't help but increase.
2. Share Fate
A flywheel of increasing trust drives more transition to the cloud, which compels even higher security and even more skin-in-the-game from the cloud provider. Some cloud providers talk about "shared security" but organizations must take a broader view of things and follow a model that focuses on creating a mutually beneficial shared fate.
Caring about customer security is all about holistically optimizing customer experiences by focusing on elements such as default configurations, secure blueprints, secure policy hierarchies, and consistent availability of advanced security features.
The cloud vendor must always provide a high-assurance attestation of controls through compliance certifications, audit content, regulatory compliance support, and configuration transparency for ratings and insurance coverage such as having plans in place for timely risk assessment and protection.
3. Embrace the Innovation
The race by deep-pocketed cloud providers to create and implement leading security technology inspires healthy competition and is at the tip of the spear of innovation. The pace and extent of security feature enhancement to products are accelerating across the cloud industry. The global competition to optimize security and agility in synchronization can prove to be beneficial for everyone.
4. Cloud Makes Your Digitized Environment More Secure
Most of the modern cloud platforms are frequently updated to help brands avoid some threat, vulnerability, or new attack technique often identified by the experience of someone else. Enterprise IT leaders use this accelerating feedback loop to help brands optimize their security infrastructures across omnichannel.
5. Software-led Security Infrastructure
Cloud is software-defined that allows it to be dynamically configured without customers having to manage hardware placement or cope with administrative hick-ups. You can code your security policies and can continuously monitor and optimize their effectiveness. This goal can be achieved by the continuous operationalization & optimization of the CI/CD pipelines.
6. Automate Your CI/CD Pipelines
Optimizing the deployment velocity of the CI/CD pipelines is important. Owing to the vast scale of the cloud, providers are obliged to automate software deployment and updates, usually with the help of automated continuous integration / continuous deployment (CI/CD) systems. With automation comes security enhancements, resulting in more frequent security updates.
7. Simplicity
Modern cloud infrastructures are far less robust and much simpler than on-prem environments. Cloud continues to get simpler as the market rewards cloud providers for abstraction and autonomic operations.
8. An Intersection of Sovereignty and Sustainability Has to Exist
The global scale and the ability of the cloud to operate in localized and distributed ways creates 3 three pillars of sovereignty that will be important in all jurisdictions and sectors. These include Data Sovereignty, Operational Sovereignty, and Software Sovereignty.
The Three Pillars of Sovereignty in GCP
Cloud overall is a very sustainable option as well. Clouds due to their global distribution can more easily suffice national or regional deployment needs. Workloads can also be easily deployed to regions with better energy profits. Also, cloud-based platforms are inherently more efficient and focused on your resource utilization, which makes them even more sustainable.
Wrap Up
Moving into the year 2022, organizations will be increasingly relying on national, regional, and zonal isolation mechanisms in the cloud to distribute and hence optimize their critical security infrastructure. Resilient multi-cloud services need to be configured and therefore, there needs to be a commitment to open source and open standards as well.
Hope you now know how to harness the power of the cloud computing trends to propel your security infrastructure faster for less control and less effort. Adopt these trends to gain an upper hand over the on-prem.