Ten Years of Cloud Brought Risk, Regulations and Reliability

Ten years of cloud computing have brought about a change in understanding, DevOps, new risk strategies and regulations. Speaking on a panel marking the tenth anniversary of the Cloud Security Alliance, moderator Becky Swain, GRC and cloud security assurance consultant, asked what the challenges have been in the last 10 years of cloud computing. Setu Kulkarni, vice-president of strategy and business development at WhiteHat, said that the “security narrative is changing” as the “CISO 1.0” of 10 years ago had different responsibilities from the “CISO 2.0” of now, which include defending the applications that users use, and protecting the enterprise. Kurt Hagerman, CxO advisor, cyber strategy at Coalfire, added that the challenge in the space was to understand cloud technology, and “native technology that is provided by cloud service providers.” He said that as cloud now enables businesses, security teams need to know how to have a view of security which is an enabler, and not a business blocker.