Security News > 2021 > May > Expert: The cloud is more secure than on-prem, but the speed of adoption is making it less so
SEE: Research: Video conferencing tools and cloud-based solutions dominate digital workspaces; VPN and VDI less popular with SMBs. Ron Bennatan: We all know that the transformation, the move to cloud, the move of the workloads to the cloud, I mean, it's something that's been happening for the last five years and more.
One of the hardest things is to deal with that complexity, and the cloud gives you so many options and so much freedom and so much flexibility that it's great to drive business, but it's not always clear whether all the security controls are catching up as quickly as they should be with that transformation and the workloads going in the cloud.
I keep hearing about, "When are we going to stop seeing leaky buckets?" It is not that the cloud infrastructure is less secure.
Part of my job is building products that keep up with the variety of the type of repositories that pop up in the cloud, and working with the cloud vendors to make sure that we understand what they're releasing and we release support for that.
On the people side, something that's very clear is that a lot of companies, because they want to move faster into the cloud, they create a separate cloud architecture group, and they're responsible for kind of that platform, that infrastructure, how it adapts, how it's ingested or consumed within the company.
The way people deploy things on prem is from the way people deploy things on cloud.