Hybrid cloud network security

With the pandemic, cloud adoption has accelerated in the past two years. According to 2021 Cloud Adoption Research (https://www.oreilly.com/pub/pr/3333) from O’Reilly, 90% of respondents indicated that their organizations are using cloud computing. In a nutshell, it is realistic to say that your organization will have some sort of connectivity to the cloud sooner or later, and according to the normal migration trend, the first step is to implement a hybrid cloud.

When designing your hybrid cloud network, you need to take everything that was previously explained in this chapter into consideration and plan how this new entity will integrate with your environment. Many companies will adopt the site-to-site VPN approach to directly connect to the cloud and isolate the segment that has cloud connectivity. While this is a good approach, usually a site-to-site VPN has an additional cost and requires extra maintenance. Another option is to use a direct...