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Why Organisations Should Adopt a Cloud Security Framework

Steve Durbin

Published 09 - June - 2023

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The cloud is the future of enterprise architecture. It’s economical (to a degree), it’s scalable, it’s flexible and – best of all – it’s someone else’s responsibility. Again, to a point. That’s because the cloud comes with its own set of security and governance challenges.

1. Controlling the sprawl

An average employee uses about 36 cloud-based services daily, while enterprises store about 60% of their data on the cloud. Controlling this sudden, often unintended explosion of cloud usage can pose a major challenge. Uncontrollable usage often translates to higher costs, decreased efficiencies, and increased security issues.

Whenever a third party is involved in processing data or maintaining infrastructure, it will always add an extra layer of risk. What’s more, as businesses grow and evolve, if they don’t invest enough in managing, monitoring and securing this sprawl, these risks tend to get amplified. Like a junk drawer where stuff is randomly thrown in, eventually things become unmanageable.