ENCRYPTION IS KEY

摘要

The cloud opens up huge vistas of opportunity through increased agility, flexibility, efficiency and cost-saving. Yet as cloud migration increases and workloads are distributed in different locations across hybrid infrastructures, the security complications multiply, especially in relation to encryption and key management. These are serious considerations that have significant cost implications, which multiply as more organisations develop complex cloud environments.The 2020 IBM Ponemon Cost of a Data Breach Report puts the average cost of a data breach at $3.86-million and the average length of time to detect and contain at 280 days. But security complexity and cloud migration drive up the damage to as much as $4.15-million. There is no question that the use of hybrid cloud is accelerating. In the first quarter of this year, global spending on shared cloud infrastructure rose by almost 12 percent, according to market intelligence company IDC, amounting to more than $ 10-billion, while spending on dedicated cloud infrastructure rose nearly 15 percent to hit S4.8-billion. Almost half (46 percent) of the latter figure was invested on-premises, reflecting how hybrid deployments arc becoming the norm. IDC estimates that more than 90 percent of enterprises worldwide will be relying on a mix of on-premises/ dedicated private clouds, multiple public clouds and legacy platforms to meet their infrastructure needs by 2022. A survey by professional services giant Accenture at the end of last year found 60 percent of its top banking clients have adopted a multi-cloud strategy. The typical enterprise may now use as many as 1,200 different clouds including commonplace applications or systems such Microsoft Exchange or Salesforce.