Automation Pinpointed as Critical for Secure, Agile Cloud Workloads
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - August 19, 2016) - CloudPassage today announced the results of a survey revealing the impact of cloud deployment on enterprise security risk. The company surveyed information security professionals attending the Black Hat 2016 Conference and found that the agility, scalability and dynamic nature of the cloud has increased the number of server workloads and attackable surface area that require protection and monitoring. At the same time, security staff sizes remain the same, and many are still not automating security controls on cloud workloads.
Key Findings
"Adopting cloud infrastructure and agile application delivery creates exponential growth in server workloads, meaning more potentially attackable surface area and more security management overhead," said Carson Sweet, co-founder and chief technology officer of CloudPassage. "At the same time, organizations rarely increase the size of their security teams at all, much less enough to keep up with the higher scale and pace. While organizations have started to understand that cloud infrastructure can deliver faster development, deployment, and innovation cycles, many are not thinking about the related impact to security operations. It only takes one compromise to derail adoption of these new technologies and wreck the value they otherwise could have added. We hope enterprises seek to protect these investments sooner than later by enabling security that's dynamic, automated and on-demand…in other words, agile security that can harmonize with more broadly agile IT delivery models."
Supporting Quote
Adrian Sanabria, Senior Security Analyst, 451 Group: "There's less and less separation between building out the application and building out the infrastructure. Security has to be built in. It has to be automated. It's no longer something we deploy manually."
Survey Methodology
To gather this data, live interviews were conducted with IT security professionals attending the Black Hat USA Conference from August 2-4, 2016.
About CloudPassage
CloudPassage® Halo® is the world's leading agile security platform that provides instant visibility and continuous protection for servers in any combination of data centers, private clouds and public clouds. The Halo platform is delivered as a service, so it deploys in minutes and scales on-demand. Halo uses minimal system resources; so layered security can be deployed where it counts, right at every workload -- servers, instances and containers. Leading enterprises like Citrix, Salesforce.com and Adobe use CloudPassage today to enhance their security and compliance posture, while at the same time enabling business agility. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, CloudPassage is backed by Benchmark Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, Tenaya Capital, Shasta Ventures, Musea Ventures and other leading investors.
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