Security News > 2023 > December > Bridging the gap between cloud vs on-premise security

Cloud-based security initiatives, such as Secure Access Service Edge and Security Service Edge, comprising Secure Web Gateway, Cloud Access Security Brokers, Data Loss Prevention, and Zero Trust Network Access, effectively push security to wherever the corporate users, devices, and resources are - all via the cloud.

For starters, this hybrid security architecture adds up the cost and complexity of managing disparate security solutions, something organizations desperately attempt to overcome with cloud-based converged security stacks.

Secondly, the absence of unified visibility across cloud and on-premise security components can result in a loss of shared context, which renders security loopholes inevitable.

Even Security Information and Event Management or Extended Detection and Response solutions can't address the complexity and operational overhead of maintaining a hybrid security stack for different kinds of traffic.

Any on-premise security measures added within cloud-based security paradigms should maintain a unified dashboard for granular policy configuration and end-to-end visibility across LAN and WAN traffic.

This is the only way organizations can reliably bridge the gap between cloud and on-premise security and enable a sustainable, adaptable, and future-proof security stack.

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