Infographic Guide to Sharpening Security in the Public Cloud

Guide to Sharpening Security in the Public Cloud

Businesses are turning to public cloud environments such as Microsoft® Azure® for greater scalability, flexibility and cost savings.

In fact, 52% of organizations have migrated services and workloads to cloud-based platforms to modernize the end-user experience.

On the other hand, 45% of IT professionals are on the road to switching to cloud architectures for improved identity and access management.

Heading to the dark cloud?

Common vulnerabilities in publicly accessible software include:

• Limited oversight and control over malicious activities
• backup and reliability when data is lost
• Enforcing security policies in place
• Protecting virtual networks such as Azure Virtual Network (VNet)

Shared responsibility in the cloud

While Azure delivers multilayered, built-in security controls and unique threat intelligence at the infrastructure level, organizations are ultimately responsible for the defense of their entire Azure infrastructure.

What now?

Your unique and complex environment requires a security architecture specifically designed for Azure. McAfee delivers a range of security platforms for cloud-native threat defense and management.

Need: Businesses need a cloud-ready solution that provides database protection and continuous compliance without downtime and costly hardware.

Solution: McAfee ^{Database Security on Azure is an easy-to-deploy software solution that presents real-time visibility for business-critical databases with features like:}

• Memory monitoring
• Vulnerability assessment
• Customizable security policy

Need: Existing security solutions are not built to keep up with the ever-changing cloud workloads and virtualized environments.

Solution: The McAfee Virtual Network Security Platform (vNSP) offers complete intrusion detection and prevention designed for the cloud, protecting your workloads against unknown threats.

• Supports VMware NSX ^{and OpenStack}
• Scalable and easy to manage
• Multiple integration options

Need: Investigation and threat hunting exhaust our IT teams.

Solution: Solution: The McAfee Virtual Network Security Platform (vNSP) offers complete intrusion detection and prevention designed for the cloud, protecting your workloads against unknown threats.

• Threat intelligence sharing
• Works with third-party email gateways
• Effcient alert management

Find the path to successful cloud application.

As a Microsoft Gold Partner with 16 Gold competencies, Insight has a dedicated team of Azure technical solution advisors and product specialists that will guide you in building comprehensive network security with McAfee.