As businesses and individuals move their operations to the cloud, it is becoming clearer each day that security and safety are two critical factors in any cloud deployment. With the right deployment strategy in place, spiraling costs can be avoided while moving applications and data from on-site storage or from one cloud to another. The biggest challenge has always been moving to the cloud without a proper strategy but rather as a knee-jerk reaction to a promised low cost by different vendors. One of such failure to plan can be seen from back in 2011 when the Cloud First policy was announced by the Obama administration. The announcement saw many companies and individuals moving their applications and data without taking into account various aspects of the cloud in comparison with on-site storage or comparing one cloud with another.

As COVID-19 continues tearing different industries apart and changing norms, the future of work is now more clear than before working from home. What appeared once as distant prospects have turned into reality as businesses try to find new means of survival. Working from home is one of the areas that has been largely adopted courtesy of this pandemic. With many countries trying to minimize human interaction by introducing lockdown and social distancing measures, many employees are now forced to work from home as companies close their business premises amid the coronavirus pandemic. Companies are now launching different remote working initiatives that will see them continue being productive even as they keep themselves away from infections.

Cloud computing has continued to grow, and many organizations have adopted it as the right technology to address storage issues in the age of big data. However, as things shape up, the number of providers has also grown significantly and so have the challenges associated with infrastructure management and security. As services offered by the cloud such as IaaS, SaaS, PaaS, and RaaS keep increasing, the security posture must be addressed. According to a report by Gartner, 95% of cloud security issues in 2020 will be due to improper configuration. A single failure to configure the system in the right manner can expose thousands of systems and information to massive breaches, and many systems and users will be affected as a result.