Security Policies
Converting visibility into relevant action is critical. This takes place through consistent policies for all clouds across an organization’s systems. It is important to point out that, while an unlimited number of new security policies can be created, consistently enforcing them throughout the organization is not so easy. Much of the data and user activity to which organizations need to apply those policies is outside of their security perimeter and is not visible. It may be known that incidents are occurring, but there is no broad enforcement capability (other than manual processes) to identify and stop them.
As a result, a clear set of security policies that take into account the individual constraints of each cloud environment, with procedures in place to remedy security issues and safely process data, is a must.
These policies need to be located adjacent to the clouds, as enforcement must take place in real time and at the closest point to where most attacks are likely to be initiated. Along with improved performance and scalability when applying these controls, security policies can then be adjusted, also in real time, for the constantly changing nature of enterprise applications.
Access Control
When it comes to controlling user access to applications and services, it’s easy to make a mistake in a multicloud environment because there are many interdependencies between individual clouds, user groups, and processes. This begs the question of who should have access to what resources and workloads? In a typical zero trust model, each user or process should only have access to those resources that are actually needed, and no more. Enterprises must also ensure that permissions are continually updated as users and data are constantly changing.
How Equinix and Check Point help enterprises take control
To increase the level of security in a multicloud environment, enterprises need to implement tools that include unified threat prevention to detect activity anomalies across any cloud and workload, automation including auto-provisioning and auto-scaling with automatic policy updates as well as high fidelity posture management to help comply with regulatory and industry standards.
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