Public cloud has become the major underpinning of enterprise infrastructure strategies and innovation delivery. Cloud's self-service access, elasticity, scalability, quick deployment, and access to new infrastructure and services with little up-front costs has brought about accelerated delivery to market and rapid uptake by enterprises.
But adopting public cloud also brings security risks. Multitenancy means that there is an increased attack surface. Even simple lift-and-shift migration without refactoring or proper governance or infrastructure hardening can lead to untethered spend, insecure and noncompliant workloads, and the risk of potential security breaches. Simply put, turning on the "lights" of a cloud account does not equal digital transformation. New methods of governance, new modes of collaboration, and new ways of working are fundamental to successful cloud adoption.
Cloud strategies continue to change and evolve as new cloud technologies and services are introduced, and as a result, the cloud security strategies of five years ago are already outdated. CISOs are finding that the way their business uses cloud is constantly moving like goalposts on wheels. Cloud security must also evolve at this pace.
Here are some of the most critical cloud trends that CISOs need to be aware of for 2025:
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