Well ahead of plans, the COVID-19 pandemic has forced organizations to significantly advance their digital acceleration initiatives into cloud—in some cases, maybe even unplanned. Additionally, many organizations underwent forced acceleration to cloud due to external factors such as competitive pressures. This has resulted in “accidental multi-clouds,” comprising public and private clouds, wrought with complexity and likely security ineffectiveness and weaknesses.
Evaluating where an organization is in its application journey across its build, run, and deploy stages can help to effectively adjust the strategy and investments to better realize and secure digital acceleration outcomes while reducing complexity. More importantly, this allows organizations to course-correct as needed and lay the foundation to effectively scale as their digital acceleration initiatives and business goals evolve. A well-designed cloud strategy should allow organizations to secure any application on any cloud with a significant level of security effectiveness with the least amount of complexity.
