Security Benefits of Enhanced Cloud Visibility

A platform also provides you with the flexibility to choose the protection you need, which aligns with the security by design approach. With a platform, you can choose the cloud (hybrid or multi), the environments (public, private, virtual), and the tools necessary to securely meet your organization’s objectives.

Security teams may feel over-burdened, and DevOps teams can be resistant to integrating security into their processes, as it often slows them down—that’s where platform-driven automation comes into play. This allows both teams to reap the benefits of security by design, without adding hurtles to existing workflows.

Like the infamous catch-22, “which came first: the chicken or the egg?”, you might puzzle over whether to prioritize DevSecOps or platform security. But if you adopt a DevSecOps culture, it will lead you to a security services platform, and vice versa. And as DevSecOps continues to go mainstream, the benefits of the approach are showing. In 2020, a GitHub DevSecOps survey found that 93% of security professionals said developers caught 25% or less bugs. However, as teams continue to shift left (up by 5% to 70% overall) the number of disgruntled security professionals plummeted to 45% in 2021.

Considerations for choosing a security platform

While there are tons of platform solutions on the market, not every platform is created equal. Before you buy a house, you usually have a couple of “wants” in mind—big backyard, good schools, or a sound-proofed room where you can work without disturbances. Think carefully about your migration goals and how security will enable you to achieve them. Although security is not one-size-fits-all, in order to get the most comprehensive coverage and protections for your cloud migration journey, consider these key factors:

• More cloud visibility: According to an ESG report, 69% of organizations admit that they have a cloud visibility gap. Reduce blind spots with a single source of truth across your hybrid and multi-cloud environments, with complete security controls and integration.
• Multi-service: Provides a combination of workload, container, serverless, open source and even cloud storage, as well cloud posture and cloud networking protection for optimal flexibility and simplicity.
• Extensive automation: Save time, money, and resources in managing and enforcing security policies across hybrid environments.
• Developer-friendly: Deployment via security as code with API-enabled tools that support continuous integration and delivery to bake security controls directly into developer processes.
• Fast-track compliance: 38% of surveyed AWS customers cited compliance as their main day-to-day operational headache. The right platform will integrate automated compliance scanning into your build pipeline to catch any violations before deployment.
• Defense in depth: Leverage innovations such as virtual patch and integrity monitoring, while utilizing machine learning, AI, and threat intelligence to detect and block threats in real-time.

The cybersecurity vendor supplying your solution of choice is just as important as the product itself. Your cybersecurity vendor should act as a partner, and work with you as your security and business objectives change over time.

Solutions for your cybersecurity problems

Trend Cloud One™ is a security services platform designed to tackle cloud vulnerabilities for SecOps and DevOps teams. This cloud-native platform is compromised of the following protections:

Earlier we mentioned a few key features you should look for in a cloud security platform. Here’s how Trend Micro Cloud One stacks up:

• More cloud visibility: One console for eight security services that provide complete cloud visibility. No more siloed views from various point products, our platform leverages turn-key integrations and broad APIs.
• Multi-service: Enjoy eight services designed to address all your cloud security needs—like Container Security, Network Security, Application Security, and Open Source Security by Snyk.
• Extensive automation: Benefit from automation within every solution, such as automated file and open-source code scanning as well as auto-remediation or automatic post-scan actions.
• Developer-friendly: Our platform deploys via infrastructure as code (IaC) to ensure the most secure and compliant templates are used. Maintain development speed with Application Security, which provides detection and protection for apps and APIs built on your container, serverless, and other computing platforms.
• Fast-track compliance: Continuous scans against hundreds of best practice and compliance checks across a broad range of regions and industries.
• Defense in depth: Workload Security protects your new and existing workloads with machine learning, virtual patching, integrity monitoring, and more. You can stay ahead of the curve with insights into the latest threats thanks to Trend Micro™ Zero Day Initiative™, the world’s largest bug bounty program.