Organizations have to take precautions to maintain the security of their cloud infrastructures. Cloud environments have become prime targets for hackers and cybercriminals. As more companies move workloads to the cloud, the value of their data cloud-based data resources increases.

Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) is a cloud model that combines network and security functions in a comprehensive cloud service. The term is pronounced “sassy” and is intended to allow organizations to manage network and security tools in a single consolidated interface. SASE has minimal hardware requirements and operates independently of where users and resources are physically located.

Cloud computing offers many technical and financial benefits to businesses, and companies are taking advantage of the offerings of cloud providers at an ever-increasing rate. Despite the numerous advantages, the move to the cloud is not without its challenges. 

The Log4j security vulnerability was discovered on December 9, 2021, by Chen Zhaojun of the Alibaba Cloud Security Team. The formal designation of the vulnerability is CVE-2021-44228 or Log4Shell. It is a publicly available and high-severity security flaw that impacts the core functionality of the widely used Apache Log4j logging library. This includes many cloud environments across the public vendor spectrum.