When organizations originally started to move data to the cloud in a meaningful way, the security conversation usually centered around one tactic – access. After all, if you could ensure that only the right people had access to a particular cloud, your data would be safe, right? Not quite.
As we continue to see an increase in data breaches impacting data stored in the cloud, it’s clear that access, in and of itself, isn’t the silver bullet solution. If bad actors want to get your data, they will find a way — they study each new access control technology until they find its vulnerability. Continuing to simply apply another control that hackers will again unlock is a never-ending, no-win prospect — and not cost-effective. In fact, though organizations pour more money into data security, breaches continue to increase.