Healthcare is not alone when it comes to concerns over securing workloads in the cloud. Across industries, security remains a major challenge to cloud strategy for organizations.
The 2024 CDW Cloud Computing Research Report found that 84% of IT decision-makers surveyed had moved workloads to the cloud only to move some back on-premises, with security as a top reason for the repatriation.
The healthcare sector mirrors these worries, according to CDW Healthcare Strategist Doug McMillian. “Organizations purchase apps that have been developed by somebody else, and then they run them,” he writes in a HealthTech blog post. “The inherent security of that application comes down to how the partner or vendor has designed it and is maintaining it.”
Despite some lack of control, IT teams are finding that the cloud offers inherent security capabilities that end up improving their posture in the long run. More than 48% of respondents to the CDW survey said better security was a business benefit they have gained from the public cloud.
“Another way to improve security in the cloud is to follow general security best practices, such as the five pillars of zero trust,” McMillian adds. “Ensure the organization has strong identity management, data governance and application management best practices in place. Regular security hygiene and patching should be a big focus in the cloud.”
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