Cybersecurity and Cloud Computing: The Great Challenge of Our Time
” Cybersecurity is weak: the national Cloud is needed“. These words were spoken in an interview with “il Giornale” by Adolfo Urso, president of
Copasir
, the Parliamentary Committee for the Security of the Republic.
“No one imagined that it could come to this, a war of invasion in our Europe on such a large scale,” he says The greatest risks are on the cyber front. We have recently created the National Agency for Cybersecurity, filling a decade-long gap compared to France and Germany, which has already given indications to companies to protect their assets. We must create the national Cloud as soon as possible to secure our data and create publicly controlled broadband”.
Adolfo Urso speaks clearly, the security of IT infrastructures is in constant danger. And if it is true for public ones, it is even more so for companies.
Cloud Computing, it is now well known, is the main resource for any type of business in terms of agility, resilience and speed of development. Implementing reliable and efficient cybersecurity solutions, however, has proven to be more difficult. The reason is in some ways cultural. For many , “entrusting” data and applications to third parties means delegating their protection in full. In other ways, it is instead due to a technical problem, namely the complexity of hybrid and multicloud architectures and the difficulty of implementing a true holistic approach to data and application security.
The novelty is that Fortinet and
Amazon Web Services
have teamed up to help companies understand if and where vulnerabilities may be found in infrastructures, but above all in cybersecurity strategy: by leveraging AWS’ “Shared Responsibility Model”, Fortinet is able to identify flaws in the company’s IT ecosystem or in its wealth of knowledge, to then move on to an implementation phase, creating a secure Cloud infrastructure thanks to its solutions and services.
But what is the so-called “shared responsibility“? In essence, it is a crossroads of skills between the customer and the Cloud Provider and the valuable collaboration between AWS and Fortinet manages to give the best, combining the protection of customer workloads, networks, applications and data.
Fortinet’s technology platform integrated into AWS services is called Fortinet Security Fabric. In this way, security updates, which are a whopping one billion a day, are implemented in all services, making Cloud work environments more robust and resilient.
The beating heart of this virtuous system is “FortiGuard Labs” thanks to which 340 thousand malware and 18 million intrusion attempts are neutralized every minute.
In addition, Fortinet’s solutions integrated into the AWS offering allow you to have full visibility of cybersecurity-related data, leverage high-level automation, and operate through a single console. A truly advantageous offer, therefore, to help its customers “embrace” the Cloud safely, developing integrated solutions that simplify the implementation of best practices.
