The first is the accelerating—and inexorable—adoption of public cloud at scale. The other is rapidly heightening sensitivity and awareness of the global data threat environment, which predictably has called into question the security of public cloud.

Thus, IT architects find themselves asking, “How do I mitigate security risks while still moving ahead with our ambitious public cloud plans?”

Data underscoring the interest in public cloud is unambiguous. A report from McKinsey & Co.1 points out that “using the public cloud disrupts traditional cybersecurity models that many companies have built up over years.” McKinsey’s study of 90 enterprise-class organizations last year found that 80% plan on having 10% or more of their critical workloads in the public cloud by 2020, or double their current public cloud use today. Not surprisingly, the research and consulting firm urges organizations to “evolve their cybersecurity practices dramatically to consume public cloud services…to protect critical data.” To read more, please download this whitepaper…

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