Average company uses 53 different cloud services. This makes maintaining visibility across products, accounts, regions, and providers a formidable challenge leading to misconfigurations, accrual of technical debt, and runaway spending
Identifying issues at scale in an automated manner allows for agility. Governing multiple cloud providers for issues and compliance drifts without dependencies or being disruptive is crucial for business enablement.
Product, Engineering, Operational, Security and Compliance functions are critical for building secure and scalable cloud environments. Presenting priorities on a platform with common sources will result in boarder adoption.
Hybrid clouds, hybrid IT environments, hybrid tools are the reality. They unlock new capabilities and allow organizations to consume the best of the industry. Hybrid environments are critical to enabling companies.
Product teams engage with product management tools, security with security tools, DevOps with CI/CD tools and so forth. These tools often don’t talk to each other. Without a common platform integrating the tools, priorities are harder to translate between teams and strategic decisions might not be inclusive of all information
Cloud security solutions focus on listing thousands of configuration issues geared towards security SMEs, mounting unobtainable corrective action debt on multiple teams. Teams are perpetually play catch up on issues that are identified by security teams as opposed to building a secure tool from the start.
Tiered administration and rolling privileges through least privileges are fantastic in theory but fall short in practice. These requires impractical architectural changes and confusing IAM policies. This means convoluted DevOps methods frustrating engineers and impacting delivery.
Native governance solutions require you to enable a plethora of services that can be very expensive. AWS depends on AWS Config, SecurityHub which are regional to deliver the same value as Keibi Compliance. Multiple cloud, regions will mean this will require SMEs and extensive timelines
Cloud native providers are incentivized to discourage multi-cloud. Their solutions are impractical to be used cross clouds. The non-cloud players focus on specific domains such as security or networking. You will need to purchase multiple solutions for true hybrid cloud coverage
Any solution that requires finding new talent or upskilling people is bound to take time and be not cost effective. To do this right, there is a need to enable platforms across the enterprise estate, at scale, without the need for SMEs
