Cloud Migration Security Challenges And Best Practices
Search Cloud Computing, Friday, December 27th, 2024
Cloud migration can seem daunting to security teams. Following these essential practices can help them move infrastructure and applications to the cloud safely and securely.
As organizations plan to move workloads and applications into the cloud, they encounter a fundamental problem. The security controls and practices they've built for their on-premises environments aren't quite what they'll need in the cloud, where everything is software-based and deeply integrated.
Cloud migration consists of moving existing assets, typically applications and server workloads, into a cloud environment. In some cases, these migrations are relatively transparent and straightforward -- for example, moving a Microsoft Windows file share from an on-premises virtual machine to a cloud-based Windows file share instance.