Automation Will Be Key for Cloud Security

Cloud breaches often occur due to manual, human error. In 2023, organizations will get their heads around the reality that they need to take people out of those processes to better protect their information and that of their customers.

“2023 will be the year the C-suite at a growing number of organizations will increasingly heed the advice of security professionals working in the trenches and understand the risks and vulnerabilities they are seeing. They will eliminate manual processes in configuring workloads and support the smart automation of cloud security practices for existing and new resources. Their IT teams will move from reactive to proactive security, including standardization on security-approved, automated workload deployments.” —Bernard Sanders, co-founder, CloudBolt

“Teams are going to look to implement automation across the cloud security portfolio. We should see a push in teams adopting Infrastructure as Code and Policy as Code methodologies in their cloud environments to help prevent misconfigurations from the start. I believe we’ll also see greater adoption of Security Orchestration Automation and Response as no-code/low-code platforms … make these capabilities easier for teams to implement.” —Mike Laramie, associate CTO – Security, SADA