COVID-19 Impacts on Cloud Services.

The move to the cloud was already in full speed when the COVID-19 pandemic hit. When thousands of companies moved to remote working (some practically overnight), cyber-security teams had to rush to try and secure as many of these new work-from-homers as possible. More so, many businesses were forced to accelerate their digital transformation initiatives and use cloud services to do so.

To keep up with an accelerated digital/cloud transformation like this, software security must move to a risk-based focus. Security teams and development teams, already overburdened and under-resourced, therefore are now looking to cloud services for help. This means an increased demand for API security, cloud application security, and a consolidated approach to software risk reduction across the teams that build, operate, and defend these softwares.

The move to the cloud means that teams now need to learn new security skills and consider the full deployment infrastructure as part of the development and threat modeling process. The increased cloud adoption will therefore now permanently change the software security landscape and this will be one of the most important cyber-security trend of this year.

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