The article on Deloitte Insights explores how the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the shift towards cloud infrastructure, highlighting the challenges and strategic adjustments organizations must make. It discusses the transition towards multi-cloud and hybrid cloud solutions as standard practice, emphasizing the necessity for enhanced security measures and more sophisticated infrastructure management techniques to handle increased IT complexity and security risks. The piece underscores the importance of agile, secure, and efficient cloud infrastructures in supporting the evolving needs of virtual work environments. Some practical and recent examples in the article include Heterogeneous security for heterogeneous IT infrastructure beyond “threat detection” to “threat remediation.” and trusted access in a remote world, ie, embedding zero-anonymity security features. These need knowledge, skillsets, and awareness updates to combat millennium threats and vulnerabilities
Author:
David Linthicum, Mike Kavis, Myke Miller & Diana Kearns-Manolatos
