Cloud Security Hardening: Getting It Right
Kalles Group
Kalles Group is a Seattle-based cybersecurity and technology consulting firm. We believe everyone deserves to be secure.
As organizations continue to further adopt the use of cloud technologies, the importance of ensuring they are operating securely further increases. Cloud platforms generally offer tools and features that allow organizations to adopt security policies and setting that are appropriate for their business needs, but as the platforms continue to mature in this area there is a growing need for expertise.
Not all organizations can staff a team with the right mix of skills and expertise as to ensure they are hitting the mark in this area. And those that might be able to do so can benefit from supplementing their internal resources with external help.
Organizations need to optimize on the best set of subscriptions and licenses as to ensure they can appropriately harden their cloud environments. How does one know if they have made the right strategic choices in this area?
Cloud-native tooling usually hits the mark for some of the needs organizations have. But supplemental tooling is often needed as have the holistic coverage that is imperative.
Even after migrating to a strategic platform, many organizations struggle to deprecate items related to legacy implementation that drive an undesired persistence of risk.
Organizations often want to elevate their security policies and settings but can struggle with understanding how it will impact user experience and overall organizations efficiency.
Sometimes technical controls within the platform are owned in distributed form across organizations. How can they achieve a needed amount of governance around decentralized technical activities?
Our engineers have experience across a broad spectrum of cloud technologies including Microsoft365, AWS, GCP, Azure, and more. Do you think you may benefit from taking a broader approach?