By Mindy Schlueter- August 24, 2021
The cybersecurity skills gap and rapidly evolving cyber threats come at the top of most cybersecurity challenges lists, including ours. But let's also take a look at some you may not have considered.
Top 6 security challenges #1: Navigating the cybersecurity skills gap
The shortage of cybersecurity professionals means organizations are competing to hire and retain staff. There isn't enough human resource to cover physical security or policy implementation, to name just two of the aspects required in securing data.
Cybercriminals are continuously devising new ways to exploit vulnerabilities and remediation can be costly.
Digital transformation means some organizations may still be in the process of moving from legacy architecture to the cloud. Many have multicloud or hybrid cloud environments with services from more than one provider.
Compliance mandates across all industries are regularly updated to ensure sensitive data is protected as the risk surface continues to expand with new technologies and growing environments.
Growth and digital transformation work best at speed, but a security breach can slow down or even prevent progress.
As organizations move to cloud native architecture, it's a challenge to select the right security tools and processes, as well as the cloud native security expertise you need.
Time to break free from traditional security modelsTraditional security approaches only make these challenges worse, since they are often built around modular, environment-dependent services that are only applicable to one stage of the security lifecycle. This leaves you having to partner with multiple providers - such as one for consultation and architecture services, and another for implementation and engineering services.
Another way of looking at this situation is the security provider gap. For example, a managed service security provider (MSSP) may notify you of an alert, but you'll need another consultant to provide remediation. And you may have another consultant for proactive, penetration testing services.
A new flexible approach to securityHow can you overcome the six security challenges and find a security provider that fills the gaps? The answer lies in Rackspace Elastic Engineering for Security, an end-to-end service that provides digital transformation for security by modernizing security strategy and cloud security operations.
Here's how Rackspace Elastic Engineering for Security solves for the six challenges we discussed earlier:
#1: Navigating the cybersecurity skills gap
You'll have access to a security pod of experts who work as an extension of your team - collaborating in an agile, sprint-based model to defend against cyberattacks. As your consistent support team, they have a deep knowledge of your environment and business operations to help you continually improve your security posture.
Threat intelligence, security analytics, alerts and incident response services can be consolidated into a solution to be deployed and managed across your multicloud environments. Our flexible service accommodates both your ongoing cyberdefense projects and can also be escalated should an incident occur.
Rackspace Elastic Engineering for Security is designed to assess, monitor and respond to your complex cloud security challenges. Wherever you are in your cloud security journey, your pod will be with you every step of the way. They can design, build and manage your defense-in-depth architecture to protect your multicloud environments.
Our security experts work with you to define, manage and validate your governance, risk and compliance (GRC) requirements through advisory scans and assessments for PCI DSS, HIPAA and more.
Protect your digital investments while ensuring security resiliency with our certified security experts by your side, so you can accelerate business growth or meet your digital transformation plans. The elastic nature of this service means you can scale up or down in line with your needs.
Leverage our cloud security expertise and experience to build, optimize and secure your cloud environment and applications. With 800+ security certifications including 100+ cloud security certifications from AWS, Microsoft® Azure®, and Google Cloud Platform™, you will have access to both security and multicloud security knowledge.
And if you need 24x7x365 security technology health monitoring, operational support and help desk, our new Rackspace Advanced Monitoring & Resolution for Security service is here for you.
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