For all the news about business hacks and the risks of malware and phishing, the most common causes of data breaches remain insider threats due to the misuse of privileged access, weak and stolen passwords and unpatched apps. A cloud governance strategy can mitigate these risks and ensure best practices across the business as cloud adoption expands.
The value proposition of the cloud makes adoption an easy win for most businesses. Low costs and high scalability while promoting collaboration and access to business-ready tools for compute, productivity and storage have all helped usage soar in recent years.
Many organizations adopt multiple cloud services, yet with each one comes a new layer of risk to the business. CISOs and IT leaders need to better manage the risks associated with growing cloud usage, best enabled through a cloud governance policy. But what should IT leaders keep in mind when putting a cloud governance policy together?