Balancing Cloud Security With Performance And Availability
HelpNet Security, Tuesday, February 18th, 2025
Your business can't realize the many benefits of cloud computing without ensuring performance and availability in its cloud environments.
Let's look at some examples.
- Scalability: To scale your business's cloud computing services, you need those services to be available and to perform according to your business's requirements. Otherwise, your business might miss out on opportunities or end up paying for resources it doesn't use.
- Disaster recovery: In the event of a disaster, you might need to recover from backups based in the cloud. Poor availability might render those backups inaccessible, while poor performance might limit your ability to recover fully. As a result, your business might lose access to data, intellectual property, and other critical assets.
- Innovation: Cloud service providers (CSPs) are constantly upgrading their platforms with new technology such as artificial intelligence and machine learning. Without performance and availability, however, you might not be able to experiment with these new technologies early enough to seize a competitive advantage.
The Center for Internet Security (CIS) understands how much you value performance and availability in your business's cloud environments. It also recognizes how cloud security resources mean little if they don't work for you and your business's priorities, including cloud performance and availability.