Cloud innovation: Proactive Data Defender – Deloitte On Cloud Blog | Deloitte US

A blog post by Diana Kearns-Manolatos, senior manager, Center for Integrated Research, Deloitte Services LP

Deloitte’s research, “An integrated approach to your cloud migration strategy,” found 70% of surveyed organizations with a mature cloud and cyber strategy report doing well or very well in using advanced technologies to predict potential future risks and threats. Undoubtedly, artificial intelligence (AI) has an important role to play in enabling proactive cloud and cybersecurity strategies with advanced predictive capabilities across business, workforce, and customer operations.

For example, security teams have a large volume of daily activities, and a certain level of abnormal activity does not necessarily indicate a threat, just business as usual. Being able to tell the difference can be a challenge. However, organizations can use cloud-enabled machine learning (ML) to identify anomalous events, such as a Trojan horse activating “under cover” of a storm to send data to an unusual location rather than business continuity controls being implemented wherein data is rerouted to a planned location.

The cloud has an important role to play in enabling the chief information security officer (CISO) and the organization to become a proactive data defender.

Business and technology strategies for the proactive data defender

The proactive data defender’s cloud innovation strategy focuses on four key business outcomes:

Given these business requirements, the proactive data defender’s cloud innovation program would benefit from:

Innovating the future with the cloud

The proactive data defender is one of several cloud scenarios where cloud innovation programs today are looking to build new organizational infrastructures for the future. To learn more about this business case and other future cloud scenarios, visit our Deloitte Insights article, “A new framing for cloud innovation,” and don’t miss our upcoming post, “Cloud innovation: Becoming an AI-fueled entrepreneur.”