How to Maintain High Level Security in a Multi-Cloud Environment

Organizations are increasingly moving to a multi-cloud environment to handle their workloads and applications. Multi-cloud refers to the use of cloud services from multiple cloud service providers. The benefits of a multi-cloud approach include greater flexibility, control, and scalability. It offers more deployment options, improved workload management, and the increased agility needed especially when implementing a digital transformation initiative.

However, many organizations fail to understand the challenges surrounding a multi-cloud environment including:[1]

• Not understanding the difference between on-premises vs. multi-cloud security
• Believing that all responsibility for security falls on cloud providers
• Assuming every cloud provider defines shared responsibility the same way
• Expecting everyone will do their part in the shared responsibility model
• Thinking that additional security tools are not needed

These security challenges shouldn’t prevent you from leveraging the benefits of multi-cloud. To address these issues, you need to deploy a high-level multi-cloud security program. This type of security helps protect your business assets like private customer data and applications against cyberattacks across your cloud environments.

NEWAY's MULTI-CLOUD SECURITY PLATFORM

Neway specializes in helping organizations optimize their security posture through a multi-cloud security platform built in Microsoft Azure that encompasses security controls, policy enforcement frameworks, and threat intelligence to protect against rapidly evolving risks.

Neway helps your organization optimize your cloud security architecture in several ways including:

• Conducting a security assessment to map current to future state of your security posture and compliance
• Assessing your cloud reference architecture, capabilities, and controls
• Implementing a data-driven information security control and enforcement framework that scales across your Azure resources
• Establishing, deploying, and optimizing an Azure Security Benchmark that provides best practices and recommendations to improve your overall security posture

To enhance your security profile across different cloud providers and your on-premises environment, Neway offers a full complement of Microsoft tools including:

• Azure Arc
• Azure Security Center
• Azure Defender
• Azure Sentinel
• Azure Firewall
• Azure Front Door
• Cloud App Security
• Azure Active Directory

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From security assessments and deployments to management and monitoring, Neway can help you chart a path to a secure, robust, and powerful multi-cloud architecture that is purpose-built for your specific business needs.

For more information on how Neway can help establish and maintain a high-level security program for your multi-cloud environment, contact us!

[1] 5 Multi-cloud Security Challenges You Can Avoid, by Karen D. Schwartz, November 14, 2022. ITPro Today