Cloud has reigned control over a larger extent of the IT infrastructure. Cloud visibility should be utilized for the security team to spot security lapses and rectify security threats. Cloud environment allows smooth process tracking, so the security team can address threats as they arise.
At the same time, cloud visibility adjusts the resources to enhance organizational efficiency and better scales the capacity per the needs by discovering underutilized resources and any wastage in the cloud. Here are a few methods of how businesses can improve visibility into cloud security.
Establish Inventory
With the number of cloud providers in a given organization, it becomes hard to understand what services are utilized at a given time. This is where cloud visibility comes in as a concern. Getting a complete sense of asset inventory helps the organization understand the numerous components in the environment and the associated risk. Hence the cloud security solution must provide a standardized checklist across all cloud service providers. Establishing an inventory lays a foundation for numerous significant steps that will promote visibility for the security teams.
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Monitor from a Single Vantage
With the solid inventory in place, monitoring the cloud from a centralized hub promotes higher visibility. It is pretty challenging to achieve advanced monitoring on a cloud when there are multiple cloud providers and SaaS solutions, each with its dashboards and data. A cloud security tool will enable centralized monitoring and displays complete insight across a multi-cloud environment. These insights will then be utilized to evaluate individual cloud-level risks holistically in the whole environment. Centralized monitoring allows developers working across multiple platforms to innovate and mitigate issues as quickly as possible. It will quickly identify and resolve unwanted configurations or compliance issues during development.
Analyze and Prioritize Risks
The biggest challenge for security teams is alert fatigue. When confronted with massive volumes of alerts from a Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM) solution, Security Operations Center (SOC) analysts are required to understand and mitigate the issue. At the same time, a shortage of cybersecurity talent leads to more time to investigate each alert. With increased complexity, organizations need to prioritize them based on severity. Employing a cloud service provider (CSP) tool aids in the continuous monitoring of malicious activities in environments.
Trust Automation
Automation helps the security teams procure speed, enhancing data gathering capabilities and standardizing remediation after identifying a security risk. When the security team is working with increased urgency, understanding the timelines and the impact of events becomes difficult. Automation allows setting up specific remediation plans for particular actions in motion, providing streamlined time and efforts and diminishing the number of confusions.
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Keep track of Visibility Changes
Tracking and measuring visibility changes is crucial in helping the security leaders record and analyze the strengths, identify gaps, and pave ways for additional budget.
As per a recent report by Anodot, “2022 State of Cloud Cost Report”, 54% of organizations believe the reason for cloud wastage in cloud usage is the lack of visibility. Hence, keeping track of changes in the visibility levels in the cloud allows the organization to prioritize its integrations.
Cloud visibility reduces risk and simplifies cloud management, speeding up the reaction time against threats. These strategies can help the security teams to set a baseline tune allowing them to continuously monitor and proactively diminish the vulnerabilities allowing them to re-examine threat profiles.
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