Understanding business threats

Business software solutions have become more complex over the years and so have the security threats facing them. Many businesses run a hybrid setup today where part of the business software resides locally on a network (some of which forms a private cloud-based configuration) and the other part is hosted online as one of the “as a service” options, such as Platform as a Service (PaaS). Consequently, security often comes in layers for businesses.

Traditional security is a starting point for the local part of the infrastructure and service-level security is part of the cloud-based component. The Cloud Adoption Statistics for 2021 article at https://hostingtribunal.com/blog/cloud-adoption-statistics/ is enlightening because it shows that, even if you consider only the cloud component of an organization, 69 percent rely on a hybrid solution for their cloud presence, and that some organizations leverage up to 5 different hosting solutions...