Securing a Multi-cloud Environment with Next-gen MDR Solutions

Dev Narayan Choudhary 

Cybersecurity Solution Architect, TCS

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Highlights

Enterprises using multi-cloud setups are more vulnerable to cyberattacks.
Managed services for detection and response to cyber-threats can not only handle complexities involved in multiple cloud regimes, but is also easy to deploy.
Next-gen capabilities of advanced analytics and automation allow enterprises to embrace the risk involved in a multi-cloud environment and derive exponential value.

GROWING CYBER RISKS

Today’s organizations believe multi-cloud is the key enabler of digital transformation. The power and flexibility it offers is offset by the complexities in securing the landscape.

Spanning across multiple cloud service providers, applications, and systems, a multi-cloud ecosystem is more complex to secure. Lack of visibility across hosts, services, and incompatible configurations creates security gaps that disrupt the business.

Traditional Managed Detection Response (MDR) is not optimized for proactive security. The security team discovers incidents only after an attack. Such an approach weakens the organization’s defense and can cause untimely business disruptions. Traditional MDR solutions lack pre-emptive capabilities to anticipate threats before it strikes and combat them in real-time.

A CHINK IN YOUR ARMOR

How a traditional MDR compromises your organization’s security posture

Lack of visibility: Traditional MDR solutions have limitations in monitoring logs from multi-cloud setups. It lacks visibility of the hosted resources and services due to a lack of APIs and logging accessibility.

Complexity: Traditional security information and event management (SIEM) have multiple components like collection, storage, analytics that require heavy server configuration, timely patching, and updating.

Talent scarcity: Hiring a skilled workforce that can stay ahead of hackers by configuring an MDR solution with latest updates is becoming a huge challenge.

Lack of cloud compatibility: Traditional MDR solutions need diverse components, servers, and third-party solutions to enable new features and be compatible with SaaS and cloud applications.

Delayed recovery: Incident response and remediation requires manual validation at different levels for security operations center (SOC) experts.

REACTIVE TO PROACTIVE

To improve cyber resilience, next-gen MDR solutions must be capable of monitoring multiple data sources to detect incidents ahead of time and prevent potential attacks.

Coverage: The next-gen MDR solution must have end-to-end visibility of data and logs from multiple cloud sources and on-prem servers without the need for parsing. The solution should be compatible with an organization’s software, platforms, infrastructure, internet of things (IoT) sensors, and operational technology (OT) environment.

Compliance: Today’s organizations must meet three data compliance requirements: making the data available 24/7, storing it locally, and giving 24/7 access. Next-gen MDR solutions should have a presence in customer geography to meet these demands.

Composition: MDR solutions should be quickly deployable and integrate out-of-box content for threat detection, threat hunting, and data visualization.

Capability: MDR solutions must process the data in real-time to alert an oncoming breach or attack leveraging automation. Apart from signature-based detection, it should identify deviations through behavioral monitoring leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).

In a world of unabated cyber threats, deploying a next-gen MDR solution will reinvent your security posture from reactive to proactive.

About the author

Dev Narayan Choudhary 

Dev Narayan Choudhary is a cyber security solution architect at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). He is a subject matter expert on MDR security solutions, with more than 10 years of experience in cyber security. He specializes in security operation center, SIEM, endpoint protection, cloud security, and vulnerability management programs.

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Managing multi-cloud security, proactively

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In this article

GROWING CYBER RISKS

A CHINK IN YOUR ARMOR

REACTIVE TO PROACTIVE

About the author

Dev Narayan Choudhary

TCS is here to make a difference through technology.

We’re in it for good, driving positive change for the benefit of all.

Extraordinary expertise leads to remarkable results.

Want to be a global change-maker? Join our team.

Find the latest news about TCS in our Newsroom

Recent Press releases

Recent News

Recent recognitions

Upcoming events

TCS works hand in hand with world-leading investors.

Services

Highlights

In this article

GROWING CYBER RISKS

A CHINK IN YOUR ARMOR

REACTIVE TO PROACTIVE

About the author

Dev Narayan Choudhary

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