Conclusion

For organizations that haven’t adopted the cloud yet, or won’t in favor of their on-premises IT environments, a quote comes to my mind:

The future is already here – it’s just not evenly distributed.”

— (Gibson, 2003)

The opportunity to leverage the power of APIs and cloud automation on a scale not imagined before is waiting for every organization. Not only do these game changers make provisioning, configuring, operating, and deprovisioning applications and IT infrastructure much easier, but they provide security and compliance professionals the visibility and control they likely haven’t had in the past. I encourage CISOs and security teams to embrace the cloud as a way to do more with less and offset the industry’s perpetual cybersecurity talent shortage.