“Most organizations use multiclouds, yet the ability to seamlessly and securely interconnect these environments remains a significant challenge,” says Bratin Saha, chief product and technology officer at DigitalOcean. “Cloud providers are increasingly offering native interconnect solutions to simplify secure, high-performance connectivity across multicloud environments, enabling customers to establish private connections across cloud providers or on-premise data centers.” By bypassing the public Internet, such solutions “enhance security, reduce latency, and optimize multicloud and hybrid-cloud networking,” he says.
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Unify identity management and security across clouds
Provisioning infrastructure and locking down access is far simpler for businesses that standardize on one cloud and perform little application development work. However, multicloud enterprises have devops teams modernizing applications, data science teams developing AI models, and business teams looking for integrated workflows. Centralizing identity, entitlements, and security monitoring is essential for organizations to avoid risks and to secure the full lifecycle, from development through production.
“Without federated identity, unified telemetry, and real-time policy enforcement, you’re flying blind,” says Mesta of RAD Security. “Architect for observability across cloud lines, including network, data, and identity, and automate least privilege across providers. Make sure your detection, incident response, and compliance workflows don’t break when an asset lives in the wrong cloud.”