What are the Cloud Platform Security Trends in 2020?
Businesses across the world are adopting cloud-based solutions at an increasing pace. With more and more data residing on the cloud, the threats to cloud platform security have been relentless.
Problems like insecure APIs, Access management issues, Data breaches, shortage of technical staff have already been plaguing cloud clients but these will be exacerbated in 2020 as companies moving to cloud platforms have increased due to the pandemic situations. Here’s a look at the top cloud platform security trends in 2020 that might impact your business.
Introduction of SecDevOps
We will witness a higher demand for more specialized developers and more DevOps-aware security practices. Rather than developing cloud applications and then creating a layer of security around it, with SecDevOps security, it will be seamlessly integrated into the development pipeline. This will ensure cloud-agnostic protections across all clouds.
Bigger Role for AI and ML in Security Analytics
Though AI and specifically ML have played significant roles in various industries, they are yet to create a dent in the cloud platform security space. This might change as ML will be rapidly deployed in areas like data classification, malware, and anomalous load detection. This will then be coupled with automated reasoning, i.e., ML will be able to make real-time decisions while evaluating security configurations from multiple angles, as an attacker would.

Security Analytics Will Gain Importance
Cloud security devices and solutions throw a ton of security data by the minute. The field of Security Analytics will gain rapid acceptance and importance as companies will want to make sense of all the data that’s passing through the cloud. This will help companies’ usable intelligence to detect and monitor advance threats. It will help security teams avoid false positives and take proactive decisions in real-time.
Automated Compliance with Regulations
There are various international cloud platform security standards in place like PCI DSS, HIPAA, HITECH, GLBA, SOX, GDPR, FISMA, ITAR. Each of them provide companies with guidelines, regulations, and mandatory laws to help companies ensure data safety. Rather than frequent manual compliance assessments, companies will now deploy automation. Automation will simplify the process, ensure continuous compliance, and will be more cost-effective in the long run.
Network Security will Adopt the SASE Model
With more and more people choosing to or forced to work remotely, the emphasis will shift to cloud-delivered security services. Secure access service edge (SASE) technology allows organizations to protect mobile workers and cloud applications by routing traffic through a cloud-based security stack, rather than driving the traffic through a physical security system in a data center.
ZTNA technology will start replacing VPNs
Many notable data breaches on cloud platforms have been through VPNs. Emerging zero-trust network access (ZTNA) enables enterprises to control remote access to specific applications. This is a powerful option as it “hides” applications from the internet — ZTNA only communicates to the ZTNA service provider, and can only be accessed via the ZTNA provider’s cloud service. This might be one of the slowest trends of 2020 as it requires enterprises to have an accurate mapping of which users need access to what applications.
These are just some of the major trends that may move the industry in 2020. Cloud platform security continues to be the buzzword for companies who have moved significant portions of their infrastructure to the cloud or are planning to do so. However, the emphasis continues to be on trained personnel, dedicated security teams, use of hybrid solutions of a mix of technologies to ensure cloud platform security.
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