Moving critical workloads to Amazon Web Services (AWS) means significant cost savings and real productivity increases for your organization. But how safe is your infrastructure exactly? Did you know, for example, that the number of recent cybersecurity incidents involving external cloud assets has nearly tripled?1
Maximizing the benefits of AWS is important, but not at the expense of allowing your organization to be exposed to increased risk. Cybercriminals today are relentlessly looking to infect corporate systems with malware so they can steal valuable data, hijack resources, or even shut down critical services. What if your company was the next victim of a ransomware attack?
What this means is you can no longer count on a conventional, perimeter-based security model to stay safe, since this strategy relies on network location to manage resources, devices, and users. With the new, hybrid workplace paradigm taking hold – where workers access resources from any device, anywhere – network location no longer matters.
Read more at – Sailpoint – How Well Can You Protect Your AWS Cloud?