Organizations are increasingly adopting multi-cloud strategies to avoid vendor lock-in, optimize costs, ensure business continuity, and leverage best-in-class services. However, they face challenges such as inconsistent identity management models, lack of unified visibility, and expanded attack surfaces that complicate security across multiple platforms. Affected: Organizations, Cloud Service Providers
Keypoints :
- Multi-cloud approaches are utilized to avoid vendor lock-in and optimize costs.
- Organizations enhance disaster recovery and resilience through multi-cloud strategies.
- Different cloud providers use inconsistent identity and access management (IAM) models, leading to security challenges.
- Misconfigurations contribute significantly to cloud breaches, with 99% attributed to these errors.
- Security operations can become siloed due to a lack of unified monitoring across different cloud platforms.
- Best practices for securing multi-cloud environments include implementing Zero Trust Architecture and using Infrastructure-as-Code for security enforcement.
- Solutions like Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) tools can aid in compliance and threat detection.
- Centralized identity management can reduce IAM security risks effectively.
- Automating security configurations can lead to significant reductions in misconfigurations.
MITRE Techniques :
- Identity Management (ID: T1078) – Organizations are encouraged to implement centralized IAM using solutions like AWS SSO, Azure AD B2B, and GCP IAM federation to enforce least privilege access across multiple platforms.
- Configuration Management (ID: T1591) – Misconfigurations are identified as a leading cause of breaches, with recommendations for automated scanning to detect and rectify these errors.
- Security Monitoring (ID: T1609) – Lack of unified monitoring results in operational silos, and integrating SIEM systems across platforms is recommended for improved threat detection.
- Data Security (ID: T1071) – Emphasizes the need for multi-layer data protection and encryption across cloud services to secure sensitive information.
- Threat Detection (ID: T1574) – Proposes the use of CSPM and XDR solutions for real-time threat analysis in multi-cloud environments.
Indicator of Compromise :
- [URL] https://www.zscaler.com/resources/white-papers/capital-one-data-breach.pdf
- [URL] https://doi.org/10.35940/ijitee.i1083.0789s219
- [URL] https://doi.org/10.7763/ijcce.2012.v1.17