Application Protection in the Age of Hybrid Clouds Requires a New Approach to Security
From sophisticated e-commerce engines to cloud based productivity solutions and personal tools on mobile phones, applications are how things get done. In the information age, applications exchanging, processing and analyzing data are critical to staying ahead of the competition.
The need for application agility has driven an increase in cloud adoption. According to Radware’s The State of Web Application and API Protection report, 70 percent of production web applications now run in cloud environments.
Moreover, it has resulted in application development and deployment becoming increasingly diverse, resulting in the majority of organizations dealing with hybrid, heterogeneous environments that span public clouds, private cloud and on-premise data centers. According to the aforementioned report, the development of applications occurs primarily within a company’s on-premise data centers or private clouds (see chart). Seventy-one percent of application development occurs either on-premise or in private clouds, while the remaining balance is mostly housed in single public cloud environments.
