4 Hidden Risks Of Your Enterprise Cloud Strategy
CIO, Tuesday, February 20th, 2024
Unexpected challenges await IT leaders unaware of - or unprepared for - shifting risk postures, emerging regulations, or shortcomings in their approach to the cloud.
As enterprise CIOs seek to find the ideal balance between the cloud and on-prem for their IT workloads, they may find themselves dealing with surprises they did not anticipate - ones where the promise of the cloud, and cloud vendors, fall short versus the realities of enterprise IT.
While cloud risk analysis should be no different than any other third-party risk analysis, many enterprises treat the cloud more gently, taking a less thorough approach. Much of that is because enterprises tend to use the largest cloud platforms available - with AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform topping that list. And those massive platforms sharply limit how far they will allow one enterprise's IT due diligence to go.