Our security posture

The tools, technologies, and approach that are used between data centers can be different from that of cloud environment. This is because of the limited visibility and control of the infrastructure in cloud.

Thus the way in which security posture of your organization is cannot always be the way it will be when you migrate to cloud environments. 

A typical data center environment can have the following things:

• Stateful firewall
• Log and security information and event management (SIEM) solutions
• IDS connected with Switched Port Analyzer (SPAN) port
• Anti-malware at network level

We cannot have everything in the cloud. We need to assess risks and make a decision.