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.