Muhammed Mayet, Sales Engineering Manager at Obrela describes how to ensure the highest level of cyber security – both on-premise and in the cloud
Modern organisations today are increasingly adopting cloud operations to enhance their agility, scalability, and efficiency. By moving to cloud-based platforms, businesses can leverage powerful computing resources without the need to invest heavily in physical infrastructure. This shift not only reduces capital expenditure but also allows organisations to quickly scale operations in response to demand fluctuations.
Cloud operations enable the deployment of applications across multiple global locations, ensuring better performance and redundancy, which enhances user experience and resilience. And the cloud’s pay-as-you-go model offers cost flexibility, allowing businesses to pay only for the resources they use, which can lead to significant cost savings.
Additionally, cloud operations support a wide array of advanced technologies crucial for digital transformation, such as artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and big data analytics. These technologies require substantial computational power and data storage that cloud platforms provide efficiently.
Organisations can harness these capabilities to gain insightful analytics, improve customer service and innovate product offerings rapidly. Cloud environments also support robust collaboration and mobility, enabling remote work scenarios where teams can access data and applications securely from anywhere in the world. This increases productivity and helps ensure business continuity in various scenarios, including global emergencies or local disruptions.
Cyber challenges
However, using the cloud also introduces significant cybersecurity challenges that must be addressed. One major concern is data security, as sensitive information stored in the cloud can be susceptible to breaches if not adequately protected. The shared responsibility model of cloud security means while the cloud provider secures the infrastructure, clients are responsible for securing their data and user access.
This can lead to vulnerabilities, especially if organisations do not have strong security policies or fail to implement proper encryption and access controls. Additionally, the complexity and dynamism of cloud environments can make it difficult to maintain visibility and control over data, leading to potential unauthorised access and data leakage.
Another critical issue is the risk of identity and access management. As organisations adopt cloud services, managing who has access to what resources becomes increasingly complex. The use of multi-factor authentication, robust password policies, and regular audits of access rights are essential but often overlooked or under-implemented.
This complexity increases where some organisations are leveraging multiple cloud providers or are also continuing to operate on-premise infrastructure resulting in a hybrid architecture.
Integrating various cloud services and on-premise infrastructure without uniform implementation of cybersecurity can create additional security gaps that are exploitable by cybercriminals. This often leads to inconsistencies in security protocols and potential entry points for attacks.
Furthermore, the rapid pace of cloud adoption can sometimes outstrip an organisation’s ability to properly train staff on security best practices, leading to (human) errors that compromise security.
Clearly, while the cloud offers transformative potentials, it necessitates vigilant, sophisticated cybersecurity measures to protect organisational assets effectively.
The comprehensive approach to cloud security
A Managed Detection and Response (MDR) solution, which combines on-premise and cloud components, for both infrastructure and cloud operations offers a multitude of advantages that significantly enhances your organisational cybersecurity posture.
One of the key benefits is the balance of control and flexibility. On-premise systems provide organisations with complete control over their sensitive data, allowing for stringent security measures tailored to specific regulatory or business requirements. This is particularly advantageous for industries subject to strict data privacy regulations.
At the same time, integrating cloud components within the MDR solution enhances scalability and accessibility, allowing security teams to respond to threats more quickly and from virtually anywhere, therefore improving the overall speed and efficiency of the cybersecurity response.
The combination of Obrela’s MDR Cloud and MDR Infra solutions deliver a more resilient approach to security. By implementing security across both on-premise and cloud environments, organisations can ensure critical security functions remain operational even if one part of the system is compromised or goes offline.
Such redundancy helps maintain continuous security operations and mitigates the risk of downtime.
This approach allows for leveraging advanced cloud-based analytics and threat intelligence, providing broader visibility into emerging threats. This, when combined with the robust on-premise tools that can monitor internal networks closely, creates a comprehensive security stance that can dynamically adapt to both external and internal threats. Ultimately, MDR solutions that combine the power of cloud and infrastructure blend the strengths of both environments to offer superior protection and operational continuity.
Obrela’s MDR Cloud and MDR Infra solutions integrate security technologies to provide a robust, layered defense against cyber threats. This dual approach provides comprehensive security monitoring, threat detection and incident response capabilities, tailored to the specific needs of your organization.
Speak to Obrela today to find out more about how to best protect your operations with MDR solutions.
