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explains: “You need to adapt your technologies to understand what the baseline is,

what’s the anomaly, and then you can detect the threat, especially in the runtime, which

is a very hard thing to do and requires experience and a lot of algorithms to run
together, but eventually the goal is to minimise the risk by understanding your own

environment, business-related concepts, following the frameworks and integrating

technologies to have end-to end visibility, and, of course, to utilise AI and automation

technologies to reduce the noise in the cloud.”

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Mansoor Ahmed Khan, Senior Manager Network Security, IHS Towers, agrees. “When
we talk about multi-cloud environments, we get logs from so many touchpoints. The

amount is huge, so we need to employ automation or scripting, just to get actionable

intelligence.”

Two of the biggest risks in cloud are misconfigurations and identity excessive privileges,

pointed out Jeevan Badigari, Senior Manager Cybersecurity, Arada, the moderator of

the discussion. Implementing robust identity and access management controls
including privileged access management and passwordless authentication is imperative

to mitigate these risks.

“For a successful implementation, understanding the environment, preparedness and
hygiene are very important,” said P. Sathyamurthy, Sales Director, IDM Technologies.

“We need to deeply assess the environment, then we need to propose a solution that

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