As the pace of cybersecurity threats and breaches accelerates, enterprise security teams struggle to manage risks and protect their environments against the evolving tactics and techniques attackers use to target cloud deployments. The cloud now brings a broader footprint of technology and assets into scope for security teams to discover, monitor and protect. The constant and uncharted way in which workloads and cloud services are provisioned creates an expanding and dynamic attack surface that is hard to secure with tools and processes designed for legacy data centres. Security teams now have dynamic workloads with 10 to 100 times more containerized compute instances, large volumes of cloud assets with dynamic activity to track, and messy and overly permissive identity and access management (IAM) permissions to manage. Existing tools have not kept up with new tactics used by attackers in the cloud, leading to a weakened security posture. As a result, trying to develop, implement, and maintain a sound approach to cloud security has challenged many teams.
This rapid expansion of the potential attack surface has led to a large number of cloud vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and security weaknesses. As cloud resources and sources of data increase, so does the burden of processing data into useful knowledge that can be applied to identifying, prioritizing, and remediating threats. Security, operations, and application teams are bombarded and overwhelmed by the number of alerts they face, leaving organisations with long exposure windows to critical vulnerabilities. Without real-time visibility across their entire cloud environment, it is difficult for teams to prioritise the most significant risks. It is critical for organisations to harden their security posture to prevent threats earlier in the application life cycle, especially as more organizations take advantage of DevOps practices common in the cloud, such as continuous integration and continuous deployment or delivery (CI/CD).
Bad actors are adapting to this new landscape and taking advantage of the growing vulnerabilities and security weaknesses. As more organisations are building new environments in the cloud or lifting and shifting to the cloud, the threat landscape has evolved to take advantage of these security gaps. In the cloud, attack patterns are different, with fewer traditional endpoint-focused attacks and many more attacks focused on the interconnectedness of software-based infrastructure, including identity assignment and orientation (both users and non-human, or machine, identities), application packages and libraries, exposed APIs, and more.
As the pace of cybersecurity threats and breaches accelerates, enterprise security teams struggle to manage risks and protect their environments against the evolving tactics and techniques attackers use to target cloud deployments. The cloud now brings a broader footprint of technology and assets into scope for security teams to discover, monitor and protect. The constant and uncharted way in which workloads and cloud services are provisioned creates an expanding and dynamic attack surface that is hard to secure with tools and processes designed for legacy data centres. Security teams now have dynamic workloads with 10 to 100 times more containerized compute instances, large volumes of cloud assets with dynamic activity to track, and messy and overly permissive identity and access management (IAM) permissions to manage. Existing tools have not kept up with new tactics used by attackers in the cloud, leading to a weakened security posture. As a result, trying to develop, implement, and maintain a sound approach to cloud security has challenged many teams.
This rapid expansion of the potential attack surface has led to a large number of cloud vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and security weaknesses. As cloud resources and sources of data increase, so does the burden of processing data into useful knowledge that can be applied to identifying, prioritizing, and remediating threats. Security, operations, and application teams are bombarded and overwhelmed by the number of alerts they face, leaving organisations with long exposure windows to critical vulnerabilities. Without real-time visibility across their entire cloud environment, it is difficult for teams to prioritise the most significant risks. It is critical for organisations to harden their security posture to prevent threats earlier in the application life cycle, especially as more organizations take advantage of DevOps practices common in the cloud, such as continuous integration and continuous deployment or delivery (CI/CD).
Bad actors are adapting to this new landscape and taking advantage of the growing vulnerabilities and security weaknesses. As more organisations are building new environments in the cloud or lifting and shifting to the cloud, the threat landscape has evolved to take advantage of these security gaps. In the cloud, attack patterns are different, with fewer traditional endpoint-focused attacks and many more attacks focused on the interconnectedness of software-based infrastructure, including identity assignment and orientation (both users and non-human, or machine, identities), application packages and libraries, exposed APIs, and more.
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