IDC Snapshot: Cloud Services Adoption Impacting Cybersecurity Strategy for European Leaders
Fortinet News, Friday, July 19th, 2024
As revealed in this Fortinet-sponsored IDC Info Snapshot, an increasing number of European organizations are using the cloud to transform the way they deliver critical business applications, services, and security.
This represents a major shift in mindset. In the race to accelerate development agility through a move to DevOps, organizations worldwide quickly embraced all the latest cloud technologies and platforms without necessarily considering the security implications.
DevOps allows organizations to rapidly and continuously develop, deploy, and iterate cloud-native applications, thereby fostering digital acceleration and better outcomes for these organizations. However, a misalignment of key performance indicators (KPIs) often creates friction between those responsible for delivering business services and those responsible for securing them. As a result, essential security controls were sometimes bypassed in so-called 'shadow IT' projects, increasing exposure to cyberthreats and weakening organizations' overall security postures.