Secure cloud solutions
Should you strengthen your cloud security posture?
A secure cloud platform is the foundation of successful digital and artificial intelligence transformation, but the rapid pace of change and expanding scale of threats create new vulnerabilities daily. In addition, cloud attack speed and sophistication are increasing, driven by AI and automation. The range of capabilities needed to defend your cloud estate and rapidly respond to potential threats is growing. The right advisor can guide your team through the cloud security landscape to help you address emerging challenges and gain control over a complex and ever-evolving environment.
An effective secure cloud strategy requires building security into your cloud foundation, combining preventive and detective controls with a defense-in-depth approach that includes monitoring, access controls and encryption. The right approach can protect against potential threats to your data, applications and cloud infrastructure while unlocking developer velocity, speed to market and cost savings.
For many companies, the set of capabilities required to secure their cloud and AI estate is outpacing their budgets and their team’s ability to monitor and respond to an increasing volume of security signals. The modern cloud and AI security stack includes a menagerie of tools—such as CSPM, CWPP, CNAPP, CIEM, SSPM, DSPM, AI-SPM and ZTNA—each accompanied by a licensing and labor cost. The list of capabilities and the skills necessary to fully capitalize on solutions can be intimidating for even the most sophisticated security teams. For savvy technology leaders, leveraging managed security services that combine tooling and support is often the most effective way to access the leading capabilities they need while optimizing cost, flexibility and responsiveness.
Secure cloud solutions utilize a variety of emerging technologies and insights to protect your sensitive data, infrastructure and critical applications from evolving cyberthreats. In conjunction, secure cloud services extend across a broad spectrum of platforms that defend data, infrastructure and applications in the cloud.
Core components of secure cloud solutions include:
| Cloud cost management and FinOps (financial operations) | Improves visibility into cloud spend while reducing risk by identifying inefficient, unnecessary or unmanaged resources |
| Cloud infrastructure entitlement management (CIEM) | Enforces least-privilege access across your cloud environment, confirming users and systems have only the permissions they need—and continuously auditing for privilege drift |
| Cloud operating model | Establishes governance, roles, responsibilities and security considerations for a secure cloud foundation |
| Cloud security posture management (CSPM) | Monitors your cloud environments continuously for misconfigurations that create data breach vulnerabilities |
| Cloud workload protection platform (CWPP) | Secures server workloads, including virtual machines, serverless functions and containers |
| Cyber incident response and cyber resilience | Prepare your organization to detect, contain and recover from cloud incidents efficiently—minimizing downtime and protecting business continuity when threats materialize |
| Data encryption | Encrypts your information both at rest (stored) and in transit (moving across networks) |
| Data loss prevention (DLP) | Leverages tools that discover, classify and secure your data to prevent the unauthorized transfer of sensitive information |
| DevSecOps transformation | Embeds security into the software delivery lifecycle through automation, collaboration and continuous improvement across cloud-native environments |
| Identity and access management (IAM) | Restricts access to only authorized users by utilizing multifactor authentication and the principle of least privilege |
| Infrastructure as code (IaC) and policy as code (PaC) | Enable a development, security and operations (DevSecOps) approach supported by automated continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) pipelines, automating security and identifying vulnerabilities earlier in the development process, when they are less costly to fix |
| Platform design, development and deployment | Provides secure landing zones, account hierarchy, vending solutions and supporting security controls |
| SaaS security posture management (SSPM) | Secures your software as a service (SaaS) portfolio, surfacing unseen risk, including vulnerable configurations and risky identities that can be exploited by bad actors |
| Secure cloud operations and administration | Implements security controls and remediates cloud vulnerabilities that threaten data and cloud assets |
| Third-party and supply chain risk management | Extends your security posture to the third-party vendors, software dependencies and supply chain relationships that represent growing vectors of attack |
With secure cloud solutions from RSM, you can balance operational efficiency and enterprise protection, leading to a better security posture for your enterprise. Our architects will support your team as you design, develop, deploy, manage and secure your cloud infrastructure. We’ll work with you to build solutions that safeguard your critical data, protect your key processes, support your operations and align with your enterprise IT and business strategies.
RSM’s personalized approach to cloud security
Our secure cloud solution professionals have worked with top middle market and Fortune 500 companies across industries to build out cloud security programs. We know what “good” looks like. We’ve also been called on to help our clients fix stalled or failing cloud security programs. We lean on this experience to guide our clients around common pitfalls in building their cloud security programs.
Our experienced team is skilled in securing all major cloud platforms, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Our proven approaches have been applied to single cloud, multicloud and hybrid environments that bridge on-premises and legacy platforms.
Most importantly, we can meet you where you are on your secure cloud journey—scaling solutions to support your needs today and your goals for tomorrow.
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