Cyber Insights & Innovations

Building Cloud Security Excellence

- | 2025-08-07

We spend a lot of time talking to cloud security professionals, basically trying to figure out the best ways to get their jobs done in largely uncharted territory. Cloud technology is evolving at an unprecedented rate, empowering line of business users to move fast and not ask permission from IT or Security. Of course, this can result in an unmanaged environment, with many traditional governance models rendered useless by the accessibility and ease of using the cloud. This is what we call cloud chaos. Giving up and waiting for your assessor to figure out the resulting anarchy is a bad answer. So in this series, we map out a path from chaos to control using a concept we call the Cloud Security Center of Excellence, a group established to enable the organization to embrace fast-moving technologies like cloud and DevOps without putting corporate data at risk