Security in the public cloud explained: A guide for IT and security admins [Video]

Who is responsible for security in the public cloud? This is a question businesses need to consider as they increasingly deploy more workloads and use cloud-based IT infrastructure, platform services and applications.

In Gartner’s How to make integrated IaaS and PaaS more secure than your own data center report, analysts discuss the benefits of adopting a cloud-native approach to IT security.

Gartner defines a cloud-native mindset as a way to consider IT infrastructure and applications in the cloud as modular and microservices-based. The report authors state that such an architecture is typically container-based, orchestrated and incorporates heavy use of application programming interfaces (APIs). In addition, Gartner says such IT infrastructure is updated using an immutable infrastructure approach.

However, the analysts warn that such an approach does not work well for on-premise IT. “The on-premise architectural patterns and their associated tools are poorly suited for the public cloud and will likely frustrate the needs of developers and business units adopting …