Don’t you need good security advice for a Cloud migration?
SCWorld.com reported that “Looking ahead, organizations like yours will increasingly migrate to the cloud in service of their business goals. Gartner predicts more than seven in 10 enterprises will leverage the cloud to build momentum behind their business initiatives by 2027, for example. As a means of comparison, fewer than 15% of enterprises expressed this same intent just four years earlier.” The February 28, 2025 article entitled “How to plan your cloud migration with security in mind” (https://tinyurl.com/fhj2wwts) included these comments:
The benefits of moving to the cloud
In embracing cloud migration, organizations like yours can enjoy several advantages. Here are just a few of them.
Improved resiliency and availability
Cloud service providers' Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offerings feature an element of redundancy by design, which increases the resiliency and availability of your cloud-based systems. By comparison, if you want this same level of fault tolerance in an on-premises environment, you must invest in supplemental tools.
Heightened speed and flexibility
You can potentially move faster in the cloud. This is because it helps to remove equipment procurement cycles. Your IT teams can quickly experiment with solutions and shut down those you don't need based on your changing business requirements — all without committing to capital investments over the long term.
Simplified, trusted security settings
Finally, you can simplify your security efforts by migrating to the cloud. All cloud platforms feature security settings tested and validated by professionals, which removes the guesswork from what you need to do to secure your cloud-based assets. Additionally, many cloud vendor marketplaces offer tested security solutions, sparing you the time and effort of needing to build comparable capabilities on your own. Such is true of CIS Hardened Images®; the Center for Internet Security® (CIS®) has securely configured cloud-based operating systems for you by pre-hardening these virtual machine images to the CIS Benchmarks™.
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