In these environments, some practitioners are charged with expending resources to mitigate “high-severity” CVEs – regardless of how a vulnerability may interact with that IT environment. This risk may pale in comparison, for example, to a malware occurrence at the edge that goes unchecked.

A potential lack of visibility into apps, users and network traffic, coupled with alert fatigue, means practitioners may need a clearer view of their environment – before low-and-slow network reconnaissance leads to a potential crypto-locking nightmare. As enterprises mature in the cloud and their technology stacks grow – it becomes increasingly important to quickly detect and respond to vulnerabilities, malware and compromised assets. Network defenders, then, must use “contextual risk” factors to determine their next action items.
 

Discussion topics will explore:

• Whether or not your organization should be cloud-first, and if this migration is necessary
• Asses the risk and vulnerabilities’ detection in your cloud environment to mitigate potentially devastating consequences
• How intertwined cloud security practices are with instances of ransomware, shadow IT or other concerns
• Analyze the state of cloud security in the near- and long-terms, and what strategies your enterprise is utilizing to evolve accordingly