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Multi-cloud Complicates Security

The agility and benefits of cloud computing are undeniable. Forrester predicts that the total global public cloud market will be $178 billion in 2018, up from $146 billion in 2017, and will continue to grow at a 22 percent compound annual growth rate. And IDC forecasts that by 2020, more than 90 percent of enterprises will use multiple cloud services and platforms. However, what many organizations are finding out is that securing multiple public, private, or hybrid clouds can be very complex. It becomes increasingly difficult to “see” what’s going on in all these clouds, which makes security a huge challenge. Let’s look at what security across multi-cloud environments needs to look like for organizations of all kinds.

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