With its scalability, elasticity, and flexibility, cloud technology is an engine of digital innovation. But management of cloud security threats can be challenging amid the day-to-day demands of the business. We provide around-the-clock security protection and monitoring, plus a wide range of options to help you move forward with confidence. 

Common challenges of managing cyber risk in the cloud

As enterprises’ continuous integration/continuous delivery pipelines become more robust and assets move to the cloud at an exponential rate, security capabilities that are not integrated into the pipelines and that lack commensurate automation to secure the deployed solutions will likely be quickly overwhelmed. 

Adding to the challenge, keeping up with rapidly evolving compliance standards; updates in services from cloud security providers; and the threat actor tactics, techniques, and procedures require dedicated security engineering effort.

Given the lack of availability of cloud security skills in the marketplace, it can be very difficult to simultaneously design security requirements, integrate existing tools, integrate with CI/CD pipelines, manage users, monitor cloud environments, analyze threat intelligence, maintain hygiene, perform remediations, and respond to incidents. 

To tackle these challenges effectively, organizations need the ability to secure cloud workloads rapidly and at scale. This includes having a broad view of the organization’s security posture and the ability to uniformly apply security policies. It also requires processes for defining, measuring, and managing trust. 

By having our assurance SOC2 audit report, our clients can gain a significant market advantage and enhance their brand and reputation. Unlike a generic audit certificate, it gives a much more detailed and realistic picture of the IT security posture of an organization.

Running a security operations center requires a lot of things. Many of these things can seem to be an expensive investment to keep in-house.

Does your company want to invest in building a secure room and a secured network to facilitate such a function, which would be required due to the confidential data being handled and discussed?

Customers might not want to administer the systems which are part of a Security Operations Center. Such systems could be a SIEM solution, a network monitoring tool, an Endpoint Detection & Response tool, etc. These systems can be complex to set up and require time and certain skillsets to maintain.

Some companies might not be “big” enough to have such a function, as the investment is simply too high compared to the associated risk.

Budget is an important factor as well – not only does these tools cost money; maintaining them also requires people with experience of maintaining such tools. It can be difficult to see the return of investment for such a big investment across people, processes and technology.

Imagine the cost if you had to build this in your own company:

• Identify an appropriate location/room which can secured. Provide network cabling, physical access and ensure the best work environment to make sure analysts are most effective;
• Buy the required technologies – (e.g. a SIEM tool, a vulnerability scanner, a case-handling tool);
• Develop and implement processes for maintaining the technologies;
• Hire staff with a security background and useful experience across platforms;
• Hire staff with experience in managing and maintaining the technologies (capacity, troubleshooting and patching); 
• Maintain skillsets by continued training of staff.
• Many of the above would be recurring costs as wages, licenses and expenses.

Digital transformation has greatly expanded cyberattack vulnerabilities as organizations transact more business online, automate operations and employees work remotely. COVID-19 has accelerated these processes, enabling cybercriminals to be even more opportunistic. 

Proactively detecting threats and effectively responding has never been more critical. 

Now that Cyber connects people everywhere, it’s vital to foster a human approach that builds a shared culture of trust. This begins with Cyber intelligence that protects systems and infrastructure by empowering people with understanding and connection. 

Preparedness means the difference between a swift and successful recovery that minimizes operational and reputational damage or a prolonged period of disruption. 

Deloitte Cyber’s Detect and Respond services provide your people with the confidence to move quickly and securely in response to cyber threats.