In this second episode of the new CIO and Avanade podcast series, Avanade’s Sangeeta Dewan and Jason Revill discuss what security looks like in the ‘new normal’.
Pre Covid-19, it could be argued that IT decision makers were increasingly adopting a cloud-first strategy in order to help them reduce IT costs while gaining flexibility and scalability. These same CIOs, however, realised that cloud-first did come with its fair share of security concerns – just look at Capital One, America’s tenth largest bank, which saw a data breach after a Web Application Firewall was misconfigured in AWS, allowing attackers to gain access and steal data. Or look at US health insurer Anthem, which suffered a breach impacting 80 million customers, after cybercriminals smuggled data out of a cloud-based file sharing service. Even the cloud hyperscalers themselves are not immune from such attacks. Small wonder than that, in one study, 40% of companies admitted they slowed cloud migration due to these issues. Ultimately, most IT decision makers recognise that securing cloud comes down to designing and implementing a relevant security strategy, introducing appropriate training, implementing the appropriate security controls and working with trusted managed service providers to enhance the skills they have in-house. In this episode, Avanade experts Jason Revill and Sangeeta Dewan discuss: • The state of cloud security: Where CIOs are today amid global crisis • The common myths and misconceptions around cloud security • How CIOs maintain security in a heterogeneous IT world • The rise of DevSecOps – but is it a reality in 2020? • Practical guidance: The tools, techniques and teams needed for cloud security Click here to listen to the previous episodes in this podcast series by Avanade
