Top Five Multicloud Security Red Flags

Challenges every organization should know

In the landscape of modern digital infrastructure, multicloud environments have become increasingly prevalent, offering businesses flexibility, scalability, and resilience. However, this distributed architecture also introduces a multitude of security and networking challenges that organizations must navigate to safeguard their data, applications, and resources, all while maintaining top performance and ease of management. In this infographic, we delve into the top five multicloud security red flags that every organization should know. By understanding and recognizing these signs, businesses can proactively improve the security and performance of their multicloud environments, improve the efficiency of their teams, and reduce operational costs.

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Security policy updates are slow, manual, and error-prone.

IDC Spotlight: Embracing Multicloud Networking Strategies with an Integrated Security Stack — 65.7% of large enterprises (with 10,000 or more employees) typically use 60–80 security tools, in part because of dedicated tools that are necessary to address specific needs across multiple cloud environments.
SecOps teams need tools that simplify their user experience so they can focus on stopping threats.

Analyzing your distributed network performance and security takes forever.

Choosing the right tools for your distributed environment can make a huge difference in how easy it is to monitor the health of your system. After adopting F5 Distributed Cloud Services, Daniel Devegili, Information Security Analyst at Ailos found a 75% reduction time spent managing the company’s multiple environments. He says, “Before adopting F5 Distributed Cloud Services, we had to operate four different platforms and subsequently perform manual actions to correlate the data generated by each dashboard to have a holistic view of the environment.”

You have gaps in security controls and visibility.

Even with the most thorough manual process for pulling in different security and performance metrics from your distributed environments, you may still lack key visibility, like the status of all your different API endpoints in your multicloud environment
Futuriom Multicloud Networking and NaaS Survey Report: “59% of respondents said it’s important to have MCN connectivity among data center, edge, telecommunications

You don't automate API discovery, inventory, and security.

F5 Labs Office of the CTO Report: Continuous API Sprawl —as organizations grow increasingly dependent on APIs, they are increasing in number, with the total number of APIs expected to exceed 1 billion by 2031.
Even a single organization can have millions of API endpoints to manage and secure; for example, when assessing their API endpoint protection needs in advance of a large-scale app migration, McGraw Hill discovered they had more than 18 million endpoints .
With such large numbers, automation is essential to maintaining a good security posture.

Your multicloud networking costs are soaring.

F5 2024 State of Application Strategy Report : Organizations see multicloud benefits in managing costs and providing resiliency to high priority apps, with 55% endorsing flexibility to choose the lowest cost option as a key benefit.
Futuriom Multicloud Networking and NaaS Survey Report : “We asked a question to drill down into the specific features and use cases of cloud cost control that might be needed.”
- “managing network path optimization (58%)
- “optimizing cloud usage and network costs (50%);
- “using analytics and visibility to consolidate security services to reduce cost (46%)”
Choosing the right multicloud security strategy and tools can make it easier to realize the fiscal benefits of multicloud. This is particularly important as more organizations implement AI-based tools—and the associated workloads for model training and inference.

Flag 1

Security policy updates are slow, manual, and error-prone.

IDC Spotlight: Embracing Multicloud Networking Strategies with an Integrated Security Stack — 65.7% of large enterprises (with 10,000 or more employees) typically use 60–80 security tools, in part because of dedicated tools that are necessary to address specific needs across multiple cloud environments.
SecOps teams need tools that simplify their user experience so they can focus on stopping threats.

Flag 2

Analyzing your distributed network performance and security takes forever.

Choosing the right tools for your distributed environment can make a huge difference in how easy it is to monitor the health of your system. After adopting F5 Distributed Cloud Services, Daniel Devegili, Information Security Analyst at Ailos found a 75% reduction time spent managing the company’s multiple environments. He says, “Before adopting F5 Distributed Cloud Services, we had to operate four different platforms and subsequently perform manual actions to correlate the data generated by each dashboard to have a holistic view of the environment.”

Flag 3

You have gaps in security controls and visibility.

Even with the most thorough manual process for pulling in different security and performance metrics from your distributed environments, you may still lack key visibility, like the status of all your different API endpoints in your multicloud environment
Futuriom Multicloud Networking and NaaS Survey Report: “59% of respondents said it’s important to have MCN connectivity among data center, edge, telecommunications

Flag 4

You don't automate API discovery, inventory, and security.

F5 Labs Office of the CTO Report: Continuous API Sprawl —as organizations grow increasingly dependent on APIs, they are increasing in number, with the total number of APIs expected to exceed 1 billion by 2031.
Even a single organization can have millions of API endpoints to manage and secure; for example, when assessing their API endpoint protection needs in advance of a large-scale app migration, McGraw Hill discovered they had more than 18 million endpoints .
With such large numbers, automation is essential to maintaining a good security posture.

Flag 5

Your multicloud networking costs are soaring.

F5 2024 State of Application Strategy Report : Organizations see multicloud benefits in managing costs and providing resiliency to high priority apps, with 55% endorsing flexibility to choose the lowest cost option as a key benefit.
Futuriom Multicloud Networking and NaaS Survey Report : “We asked a question to drill down into the specific features and use cases of cloud cost control that might be needed.”
- “managing network path optimization (58%)
- “optimizing cloud usage and network costs (50%);
- “using analytics and visibility to consolidate security services to reduce cost (46%)”
Choosing the right multicloud security strategy and tools can make it easier to realize the fiscal benefits of multicloud. This is particularly important as more organizations implement AI-based tools—and the associated workloads for model training and inference.

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