Tripwire’s Brent Holder and Stephen Wood discuss recent study findings that provide a snapshot of what organizations are doing (and not doing) to secure their cloud.

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The following is an edited excerpt from a recent episode of Tripwire’s Cybersecurity Podcast.

Tim Erlin: Welcome everyone to the Tripwire Cybersecurity Podcast. I’m Tim Erlin, vice president of product management and strategy at Tripwire. Today, we’re here to talk about some survey results from a Tripwire-sponsored survey around cloud security. To have that conversation, I’m joined by two folks: Stephen Wood, who is a strategic product manager at Tripwire, and Brent Holder, who is a technical product manager at Tripwire. Welcome both Stephen and Brent.

Stephen Wood: Good morning.

Brent Holder: Hello. Thanks for having me.

TE: I’ve asked Stephen in Brent to pick out a couple of the metrics or the results from a survey of 310 professionals who are responsible for cloud security at a variety of organizations in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. I want to dig into some of the results.

Automation and Security

Brent, you picked out one of the results around the question, “How does your company assess overall cloud security posture?” The responses were “fully automated,” “partially automated,” “manual” or “we don’t assess at all.” What was interesting for you?

BH: I think the most interesting thing was the less automated quarter of the results. We had 22% of organizations that say they handle it manually and then 2% who say they don’t assess it at all whatsoever. Sounds like an interesting situation, to say the least, but that’s a quarter of the respondents who don’t (Read more...)