According to experts, the Cloud environment changes rapidly every day and it is difficult for businesses and organizations to keep up, thus requiring units to have a completely new approach to information security.

In order to achieve high efficiency in work as well as achieve development goals and bring products to the market as quickly as possible, recently, organizations and businesses in the world as well as in Vietnam have joined Continue to move your unit’s workload to the cloud environment at a rapid pace.

Research by CyberSecurity Insider and Fortinet shows that up to 39% of organizations surveyed said they have moved more than half of their workloads to the Cloud, while 58% of organizations are planning to do so in the future. Next 12-18 months.

VSEC CEO Tran Thanh Long shared at the information security session of Smart Banking 2022.

Talking to a VietNamNet reporter on the sidelines of the Smart Banking 2022 event, Mr. Tran Thanh Long, CEO of The Vietnamese Security Network – VSEC also affirmed that moving to the Cloud environment is no longer a trend. has become a mandatory requirement for organizations and businesses, especially banks and financial institutions.

The outstanding advantages of Cloud give organizations and businesses a huge competitive advantage in terms of business, helping organizations focus on the main business area, greatly reducing the time to put services in. activities, especially financial institutions and banks.

According to a study, in 3 years from 2018 to 2020, up to 99.8% of CIOs and strategic planners participating in the survey want to move to the Cloud environment. Worldwide, Amazon Web Services currently leads the cloud services market with 45% market share, followed by Azure 18% and Google Cloud Platform at 5%.

In Vietnam, recently, many organizations and businesses have also moved part of their work to the Cloud. Vietnam’s orientation in the coming time is that by 2025, 100% of government agencies will use cloud computing, 70% of Vietnamese businesses will use cloud computing services provided by domestic enterprises. .

“Moving to the cloud environment has become a mandatory requirement for agencies, organizations and businesses,” emphasized the VSEC representative.

However, in the trend of moving to the Cloud environment, experts also pointed out that businesses and organizations face great challenges in ensuring network information security, including information protection. , data.

Talking about this issue, expert Nguyen Gia Duc, Country Director, Fortinet Vietnam said, maintaining the traditional “on-premise” system and pushing a part of the workload to the Cloud environment, as well as the cloud environment. The choice of multi-cloud, will give businesses flexibility in deploying applications, but at the same time, there are potential threats when data and applications are not centrally managed, but distributed.

Sharing the same opinion, VSEC CEO Tran Thanh Long analyzed, the risks and challenges of network information security when moving to the Cloud environment come from the operating way of the Cloud environment which is completely different from the environment. traditional.

“Not only that, the Cloud environment also changes rapidly on a daily basis and it is difficult for businesses to keep up, which requires a whole new approach to information security. Finally, there is a serious shortage of personnel in the field of information security in general and information security for the cloud system in particular,” said Mr. Nguyen Thanh Long.

As for units in the financial and banking sectors, from actually providing services to banks, CEO of VSEC said: “Banks and financial institutions are required to move to the Cloud environment. to increase competitiveness in business. And what is most lacking for banks is highly qualified personnel in the Cloud, especially in the field of network information security.

Choosing to cooperate or outsource with professional information security service providers is a solution that businesses and organizations can consider when moving to the Cloud. (Illustration)

Making recommendations to businesses and organizations, VSEC experts said that there are a number of approaches that can help units consider, that is, using consulting units on the strategy of moving to the Cloud. as well as consulting, designing professional Cloud architecture. This will greatly reduce the risk from the start.

Regarding network information security, choosing to cooperate or outsource with professional security service providers (MSSPs) to support system operation can help banks and financial institutions focus on the main commercial aspect. Because, MSSPs are units that focus on deep expertise, have full forces as well as processes and technology that are completely compliant with international standards.

According to Mr. Nguyen Gia Duc, participating in the Cloud environment, Vietnamese agencies, organizations and businesses should always pay attention to the model of sharing responsibility between Cloud providers and businesses to proactively protect for applications and data of your unit when moving to the Cloud.

“Delivering a comprehensive security strategy, capable of monitoring and protecting applications, data moving between multi-cloud platforms as well as a mixture of Cloud and “on-premise” environments is the way for businesses to Enterprises best ensure their information assets and data on this advanced storage platform,” suggested Fortinet Vietnam expert.

Source: https://ictnews.vietnamnet.vn/chuyen-dich-len-cloud-doanh-nghiep-can-co-cach-tiep-can-an-toan-bao-mat-moi-5003577.html