Securing the hybrid cloud: What skills do you need?

Grazed from CSO. Author: Brian Dye.

With enterprises moving to hybrid cloud environments, IT architectures are increasingly spread among on-premises infrastructure and public and private cloud platforms. Hybrid models offer many well-documented benefits, but they also introduce more complexity for securing data and applications across the enterprise. And this added complexity requires an increasingly diverse skill set for security teams.

That’s a challenge, considering the growing cybersecurity skills shortage. In one recent study, 46% of organizations said they have a “problematic shortage” of cybersecurity skills – up from 28% just a year ago. One-third of those respondents said their biggest gap was with cloud security specialists. Modern security teams require a broad and deep mix of technology skills, ranging from twists on traditional network and OS technology all the way to security on data itself, to address a rapidly evolving threat landscape…

But they also need “softer” expertise, such as knowledge of compliance regulations and vendor-management skills. Driving this dual focus is the public cloud’s “shared responsibility model,” in which service providers and enterprises divvy up various levels of protection across the IT stack. These responsibilities – and the requisite skills – vary depending on the type of public cloud service…

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