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<\/a><\/p>\nAmong the most significant topics that really got people thinking and talking was the return to office environments post the pandemic, the need for enhanced security at software development stages, and the idea of balancing risk v\/s reward.<\/p>\n
Did you know that an Allied Market Research (AMR) forecast said that the global cloud services market will rake $555 billion in revenues this year? Well, this clearly indicates a 17.5% overall growth rate for the cloud computing industry as compared by the previous year. There\u2019s also no doubt that the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated cloud adoption around the globe. Not only that but also organisations\u2019 cybersecurity risks.<\/p>\n
Must Read<\/strong>: Multicloud is the New Mainstream<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Let’s take a look at the topics discussed during the Cloud and Cyber Security Expo 2021.<\/p>\n The Impact of the Unprecedented Pandemic<\/strong> Back to Work<\/strong> Also Read<\/strong>: The Advantages of Cloud Storage<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Security Throughout Development<\/strong> Risk v\/s Reward<\/strong> Recommended Read<\/strong>: Facts About Web Development You Must Know<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n For more articles like \u201cThe Cloud and Cyber Security Expo 2021: Latest Trends, Challenges and Opportunities\u201d, follow us on <\/strong> Facebook<\/a><\/strong>, Twitter<\/a><\/strong>, and <\/strong>LinkedIn<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Cloud and Cyber Security Expo 2021 hosted in London has given the attendees a chance to discuss the latest trends, challenges and opportunities that cloud computing and cybersecurity have to offer. Among the most significant topics that really got people thinking and talking was the return to office environments post the pandemic, the need…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cloud-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turningcloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turningcloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turningcloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turningcloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turningcloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2633"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.turningcloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2644,"href":"https:\/\/www.turningcloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2633\/revisions\/2644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turningcloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turningcloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turningcloud.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nNeil Sinclair, national cyber lead, Police Digital Security Centre, said, \u201cFor most, if not all of us, this is our first live event for some 18 to 19 months, which considering that we\u2019ve been going back to football, cricket, rugby, music concerts and what have you, does make me wonder what Sage actually thinks of the IT sector.\u201d He further added, \u201cObviously, we\u2019ve had 17 months of incredible change and that\u2019s hopefully brought the tech industry very much into everybody\u2019s focus. We\u2019ve now all realised that we have our IT with us from the moment we wake up in the morning till the moment we go to bed at night. We think about how we interact with it, how we\u2019re interacting with it in our homes, as opposed to in the workplace. A lot of businesses are going back to work in a real sense for the first time today. The people coming into their space now will hopefully have different attitudes. They\u2019ll interact in different ways. So all those sorts of things have changed and become more part of our consciousness. And people will be looking for fixes.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nNeil also mentioned, \u201cFrom an enterprise point of view, how easy or difficult is it going to be now with us going back to work and talking to people who\u2019ve been doing it at home? People who have been hopefully thinking about having admin accounts, about what it means to have restrictions on various aspects of their interaction with the cyber world, knowing that they can\u2019t share passwords, why they should change passwords, ubiquitous multi factor authentication. Two factor authentication, 18 months ago, the NCSC said it was probably going to be the panacea for all evil. And now we realise that it helps but it\u2019s not the end all. There\u2019s much more that we need to be thinking about. Beyond that, perimeter security has really changed over the last 18 months. What does that now mean and how do we implement it? And, of course, the movement of so many businesses to the cloud, and the problems that\u2019s possibly caused, as well as resolved for not only enterprise, but even for small businesses. Fortunately, we have seen a massive drop in the number of photos that appear on the web from leaks and what have you. So maybe people are doing something different. But when we get back into the business space, how is that going to manifest itself in how our people work, how they understand the strictures that we put on them.\u201d <\/p>\n
\nTaking the discussion further towards cybersecurity, Amitabh Singh, Field CTO EMEA, Palo Alto Networks, said, \u201cThe challenge has been that you have a set of developers who are developing and then they ask \u2018why should we actually be focused on security, because that\u2019s another team that should be focusing in that. So why should that be my problem?\u2019 I think it seems now and with the inception of cloud native applications development, it\u2019s important that we do have ingrained templates that are available. And there are two subsets that are available, which can actually take a risk and actually check the issues when you are doing coding, which can solve some of the problems we\u2019ve been seeing so far. And it\u2019s an important shift left philosophy that the whole Software Development Life Cycle has to think about no. That\u2019s a concept that at least I personally believe in.\u201d He further added, \u201cWhy don\u2019t we actually start using those ingrained tool sets that are there, then start checking those applications as when they are being built, as and when they are being deployed. That they are tested before deployment actually happens, and use those standards because we know that cloud applications are no longer those 20-30 lines of code that have been there. There are millions of lines of code and those development doings are not just phased in one single location. They\u2019re working across multiple regions. And now it\u2019s even more that they\u2019re working across continents. So having your standardised templates that actually automatically check before code has been actually deployed is I think the way to go forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nAccording to Abhishek Vyas, InfoSec Risk Manager, Cloud\/DevSecOps, Admiral Group, said \u201cWhile we\u2019re talking about risk, I think the question actually is, what\u2019s the reward? Is it worth taking this risk for the reward at hand? So for me, it\u2019s about having almost a cost benefit analysis view of that risk itself, and its position in the business risk taxonomy. Because I think while we want to reduce the risk, we\u2019re also there to help get the reward. So it\u2019s about having that balanced view.\u201d<\/p>\n