Caleb Sima, Managing Vice President, Cybersecurity, Capital One
Securing Applications Is an Incredibly Complex Task
- While the cloud offers many benefits, businesses face challenges in securely managing and obtaining visibility into their assets.
- Organizations that adopt a hybrid approach to keep their most valuable assets on premises will need to seamlessly protect assets across on-prem and cloud infrastructures.
“When we move into this new cloud-based infrastructure, it’s a challenge because these dynamic instances are owned and operated by a separate entity.”
Protecting modern assets can be a particularly challenging task when many organizations are still dealing with a lack of ownership in security, says Caleb Sima. Not long ago, in an on-premises world, a business could enjoy complete control of its environment—from the servers and the operating systems to their implementation, configuration, and management. But now, Sima explains, “when we move into this new cloud-based infrastructure, it’s a challenge because these dynamic instances are owned and operated by a separate entity.”
This is an excerpt from Reducing Cyber Exposure From Cloud to Containers. The eBook was generously sponsored by Tenable.
