Integrated Security Is Better Security

Co-created in collaboration with Oracle Corp.

When IT infrastructure moves to the cloud, data — and the paths used to access that data — must be protected. With hybrid and multi-cloud environments, this protection becomes much more complicated. That’s why automation is being used increasingly to enhance and simplify security and to enable rapid defenses and self-securing, automated responses.

All Paths Lead to the Cloud

When you manage your resources on-premises, there’s usually less external access to the data. But when you move your infrastructure to the cloud, you must secure the path to that data because that path is now more open-ended and accessible by outsiders.

More than ever, you’re dealing with objects, not just humans. Imagine that you’re a company that uses the Internet of Things (IoT), and you want to scale your architecture to the cloud. You can’t merely say, “It’s okay, I assigned a password,” because now you’re dealing with objects. In the old stack, you might not have the infrastructure technology needed to support these new use cases, so you have to redesign your application architecture — a costly endeavor.

Not All Data Needs to Move to the Cloud

It’s also important to remember that with the growing use of edge computing, not all of your data needs to move to the cloud. For example, let’s say you have a factory that produces a product using automation. You…