Cybersecurity and the Cloud in Modern Times

Due to the advent of remote work, most companies – even those in heritage industries – have had to adopt SaaS (software as a service) and other cloud tools to remain competitive and agile in the market. Several modern cloud-based platforms, including Zoom, Slack, and Salesforce have become critical to the effective collaboration of knowledge workers from their homes, which will allow them to work more efficiently. In the last few years, public cloud hosting providers like Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud have seen phenomenal growth and success. This is a consequence of this tailwind. As per Gartner’s predictions, by 2022, $178 billion will be spent on cloud providers, up from $141 billion in 2021. 

The shift to the cloud has led to lots of challenges when it comes to cybersecurity, although public cloud providers have made it easy to use modern software tools. Cloud-first security represents a paradigm shift from traditional, on-premise security in the modern day. Before this change, customers had complete control over their environments and security. They hosted their applications in their own data centers and were responsible for controlling the environment. Customers operated their network in a “walled castle” – where they controlled and secured the network and applications themselves. 

Nevertheless, when customers consume public cloud services, they are obligated to share responsibility for sec

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