Dominate Multicloud Security
The 2024 State of Multicloud Security Report highlights critical security risks for organizations operating in multicloud environments. The report emphasizes the need for a proactive, integrated security approach to navigate the complexities of modern cloud infrastructure.
Secure Cloud-Native Applications and Infrastructure
Shift-Left Security with DevSecOps
Organizations must prioritize integrating security practices throughout the development lifecycle, embracing a “shift-left” approach. This includes addressing vulnerabilities in code repositories, implementing strong protection rules for default branches, and employing a Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP). A CNAPP offers a centralized platform for managing multi-pipeline DevOps security, facilitating collaboration between security and development teams.
Preventative Risk-Based Approach with Attack Path Analysis
Attack path analysis is critical for proactively identifying and remediating potential threats. This analysis, often facilitated by Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) solutions, illuminates how seemingly isolated vulnerabilities and misconfigurations can coalesce into exploitable attack paths. Attack path analysis prioritizes remediation based on potential impact and suggests actionable steps.
Microsoft Security Exposure Management
The report highlights the effectiveness of Microsoft Security Exposure Management, an attack surface management tool that identifies, prioritizes, and remediates critical exposures. It aggregates asset data, maps relationships, and offers comprehensive attack surface visibility.
Secure Human and Workload Access Across Multicloud
The Challenge of Workload Identities
As organizations transition more workloads to the cloud, the number of workload identities is rapidly increasing, outpacing human identities. Securing these identities is particularly challenging due to their lack of a defined lifecycle, potential for inactivity, and manual embedding in code.
Managing Super Identities
Super identities, possessing access to all permissions and resources, represent a significant risk. The report emphasizes the need to manage and reduce the number of super identities, particularly workload super identities, which have increased in prevalence.
Address Unused Permissions
The report emphasizes the security risks associated with unused permissions. It advocates for establishing visibility into access rights, right-sizing permissions according to the principle of least privilege, and leveraging solutions like Microsoft Entra Permissions Management.
Safeguard Growing Data
The Growing Data Security Challenge
With the exponential growth of data and the increasing sophistication of cyberattacks, data security incidents have become more frequent and costly. The report underscores the need for comprehensive data security solutions.
Integrated Solutions over Fragmented Landscape
The report cautions against relying on a fragmented landscape of security solutions for data protection. Using multiple, unintegrated tools can weaken security due to increased complexity and alert fatigue.
Proactive and Multilayered Data Security
The report advocates for a proactive, multilayered approach to data security. This approach prioritizes preventing incidents through robust data loss prevention technology, data classification, and labeling, and the implementation of policies that balance protection with productivity.
Conclusion
The 2024 State of Multicloud Security Report offers valuable insights into the evolving multicloud security landscape. By adopting a proactive and integrated approach, leveraging advanced security solutions, and prioritizing best practices, organizations can effectively secure their cloud-native applications, infrastructure, identities, and data.
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