Building a security-first cloud architecture

If we go by the measure of Common Vulnerability and Exposures (CVEs) published in the National Vulnerability Database (NVD) and maintained by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), we are witnessing a whopping 4.5x increase in the amount of CVEs just in the last 7 years. Per the data, roughly 100 CVEs were published in NVD each week on average in 2016, while that number jumped to 450 CVEs in 2023 [2] [3]. Security is everyone’s business, and this is especially critical for modern enterprises as access to modern technology is democratized through the cloud. Building a security-first cloud architecture for enterprises is a crucial task in an era where cyber threats are becoming increasingly sophisticated. One common challenge enterprises typically face with cloud adoption is the shared responsibility model introduced by the cloud. Having a clear understanding of the shared responsibility model is extremely crucial...