Businesses are investing substantial funds and efforts into migrating workloads from on-premises infrastructure to public clouds, in part motivated by the hypothesis that, once cloud-based, those workloads will be relatively easy to move from one cloud provider to another. Unfortunately, the reality is unlikely to be so simple. It’s been estimated that about half of…

I’m glad this column is coming out now instead of earlier this year. Cloud security is more topical than ever when considering all the fun things that have happened in 2021 with security startups! Before talking about innovation and startups though, let’s talk about a brief history of cloud security… especially public cloud. Securing the…

Given all the hype around extended detection and response (XDR) technology, it’s worth starting this article by defining the term “XDR.” XDR is an integrated suite of security products spanning hybrid IT architectures (such as LAN, WAN, infrastructure-as-a-service, data centers, etc.) designed to interoperate and coordinate on threat prevention, detection, and response. XDR unifies control…

Sisyphus could be the official mascot of security operations. Sixty-three percent of respondents to a recent ESG survey of 406 IT and cybersecurity professionals say that security operations is more difficult today than it was 2 years ago. Why? 41% of survey respondents point to the rapidly evolving and changing threat landscape, which is forcing…