To meet the demands of an ever more connected world, executing on a comprehensive cloud strategy has become a critical component for organizations at any scale. While cloud platforms have made it incredibly easy to define and scale environments on demand, with those capabilities come new challenges in how to validate that those environments have been securely designed. With high-profile data breaches making headlines on a regular basis, it's only natural to feel some anxiety, but by implementing a process for continuous, automated audits, organizations can detect and correct deviations from security best practices at any scale.
To put a finer point on the challenges facing cloud security, CSO published The Dirty Dozen: 12 Top Cloud Security Threats. In this article, CSO outlines 12 threats collected and ranked by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), providing examples and outlining the severity of each threat. In our latest webinar, Secure Your Cloud Estate with Continuous Audits, we provided guidance on how organizations can use Chef to address those threats consistently and continuously.