Your cloud journey involves more than just switching up your IT. It’s about transforming your business — from enabling technology, people, process, governance to security and operations. There is no limit to what you can achieve on the cloud. You can act on new opportunities and market demands to enable innovation that creates new business models and amazing customer experiences, as well as bringing in business benefits of increased revenue and streamlined operations. All of these require strategic decisions on risk management, security, data privacy, compliance, and costs.
The pandemic has accelerated a shift towards remote collaboration, automation, and fewer people working from offices. The demand for flexible and mobile workspaces is higher than ever. Although the current technology can accommodate such needs, how do we securely do that? Many have raised concerns about remote access to sensitive or regulated systems. How do we ensure our remote workspace implementation is compliant with regulatory requirements? Is VPN itself adequate? Is there a more secure way to process documents and approval than sending them through email?
Cloud platforms allow organisations to deploy workloads in a very scalable and agile manner. That also means 1 security loophole in the design would also be multiplied across the environment very quickly. Having a Landing Zone design for different types of workload can mandate how they would be deployed in accordance with your security policies. A good Landing Zone architecture can ensure day-1 security and compliance, and eliminate all human error.
In an increasingly digitalised world, resources can be easily created in the cloud but security and compliance would be one key concern. Enterprise IT and security teams would question how they can proactively monitor the cloud environment for security and compliance without huge operational effort.