Diana Initiative 2021-Archana Puri-Security Dilemma: When Migrating to Cloud

The Diana Initiative Conference was great again this year.

Nine out of ten organisations have adopted cloud services to enable their core and support business operations. It implies other than completely cloud-based start-ups, organisations are either transitioning their workloads to the cloud or trying to bridge their business processes, applications and workflows between their local network and one or more public network and infrastructures. In such a scenario, security is often challenged with maintaining the consistency of the security controls across varied infrastructures and environment when the business decides to shift its workloads to a public network. In this talk, the speaker aims to shed light on one such migration strategy (lift and shift), the security challenges encountered, and mechanisms that were adopted to embed security by design using the cloud-native capabilities and technologies. The talk will offer crucial takeaways for security professionals working to embed security controls across similar lift and shift cloud migration scenarios within their organisation.