Hybrid cloud network security

According to McAfee's report, Building Trust in a Cloudy Sky, released in April 2017, hybrid cloud adoption grew three times in the previous year, which represents an increase from 19% to 57% of the organizations that were surveyed. 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.

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This section only covers one subset of security considerations for hybrid clouds. For broader coverage, read A Practical Guide to Hybrid Cloud Computing. Download it from http://www.cloud-council.org/deliverables/CSCC-Practical-Guide-to-Hybrid-Cloud-Computing.pdf.

When designing your hybrid cloud network, you need to take everything that was previously explained 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...